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compound eye
noun
- an arthropod eye subdivided into many individual, light-receptive elements, each including a lens, a transmitting apparatus, and retinal cells.
compound eye
- An eye consisting of hundreds or thousands of tiny light-sensitive parts (called ommatidia), with each part serving to focus light on the retina to create a portion of an image. Most insects and some crustaceans have compound eyes.
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Unlike bees and flies, which have compound eyes that merge information from hundreds or thousands of lenses into a single, pixelated mosaic image, the jumping spider has camera-type eyes, similar to those of humans and most other vertebrates.
The eye of a crustacean is a very complicated structure, commonly described as a compound eye.
Looked at in front, a compound eye may be considered an agglomeration of simple eyes; but internally this is hardly correct.
Huyghens also invented the compound eye-piece that bears his name, made of two convex lenses to diminish spherical aberration.
In the first place a compound eye is formed on each side of the median eye.
On the compound eye of a butterfly as many as 17,325 facettes have been counted.
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