What does “saccade” mean?
saccade
Oh, this is a cool one —
A saccade is a quick, sharp jump that your eyes make when they move from one point to another. Your eyes don't move smoothly when you look around — they actually jump in tiny little bursts, and each one of those jumps is a saccade.
So like, when you're reading this message right now, your eyes are making lots of small saccades across the words. Or imagine someone looking around a busy room — their eyes jump from the door, to a friend's face, to the drinks table. Each of those little jumps? Saccade.
It's mostly a word used in science, like when doctors or researchers talk about how eyes move and work.
So basically — a saccade is one fast, tiny jump of the eye.
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