Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated between the eyes, as the antennæ of some insects; interorbital.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Between, or within, the eyes; ; situated between the eyes, as the antennæ of some insects.

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  • adjective Between the eyes.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ ocular

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Examples

  • Measuring physical characteristics such as interocular distance, middle finger length, wrist circumference and even length of earlobes, reveals an average correlation coefficient of +0.2 for married couples.

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  • ULABY: Convergence, interaxial, interocular - the cinematographers and camera people are gearheads game to master this technology, but they do have some reservations.

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  • You need to have the convergence exactly right, with correct interocular distance and toeing in of the cameras.

    Jackass 3D in 2010? | /Film 2009

  • Closed-angle glaucoma is when the channels in the eyes narrow or harden and become constricted or obstructed not allowing the interocular fluids to drain from the eye.

    Human Eye: Part 2 2008

  • Neither news source appears to have noted the faint whirring of gears issuing from the back of Clinton's titanium brain cover, or the slight tapping as her interocular heads-up display clacked out the instruction INITIATE EYE-WATERING SEQUENCE.

    Bill Barol: Mmm... That's Good Pathos! 2008

  • Both [kinds of] lenses fueled the faster-growing premium interocular lens business.

    Patient Investor: Interview With Tony Yao Leslie P. Norton 2008

  • The problem shows up in the eye as retinal hemorrhages, abnormally large blood vessels in the eye and accumulation of interocular fluid.

    Human Eye: Part 4 2008

  • For example, they have resulted in the development of a new material that has found applications in light adjustable interocular lenses.

    Robert H. Grubbs - Autobiography 2006

  • I got interested in interocular lenses -- we were the first people to make those in this country -- and got so enthused, I thought I wanted to be an ophthalmologist.

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  • With this additional plot, which shows the bold number to be generally high, the interocular traumatic test suggests that the systolic pressure tended to be higher on days when evening workouts were missed.

    QUALITY IS PERSONAL Harry V. Roberts 1993

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