Usually means: Rapid, involuntary eye movement shift.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. saccade: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. saccade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. saccade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. saccade: Collins English Dictionary
  5. saccade: Vocabulary.com
  6. saccade: Wordnik
  7. saccade: Wiktionary
  8. saccade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. saccade: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. saccade: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. saccade: Dictionary.com
  12. Saccade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Saccade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. saccade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Saccade, saccade (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. saccade: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. saccade: Free Dictionary
  18. saccade: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. saccade: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. saccade: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. saccade: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. saccade: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Saccade: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Saccade: MedFriendly Glossary
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  5. saccade: Medical dictionary
  6. Saccade: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. saccade: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. saccade: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See saccadic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (saccade)

noun:  (rare) A sudden jerking movement.
noun:  A rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another.
noun:  The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
noun:  (music) The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.
verb:  (of the eye, intransitive) To make a rapid jerking movement to focus elsewhere.

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