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naked eye



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Idioms and Phrases

Sight unassisted by an instrument such as a microscope or telescope. For example, These insects are too small to be seen with the naked eye . This expression was first recorded in 1664.

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Some of the effects of the economic crunch were apparent to the naked eye at Art Basel.

The exaggerated reflection suddenly revealed that my pores were hardly as infinitesimal as my naked eye had led me to believe.

Indeed, to the naked eye, stocks are stunningly cheap—Wall Street blue chips selling at Wal-Mart prices.

Remnants of food from previous meals can be detected with the naked eye or microscopically.

We were constantly so near Terra del Fuego that we could make out every bush with the naked eye.

The naked eye can see at best in the part of the heavens visible from any one point not more than thirty thousand stars.

But all around these star-clouds, or Nebulae as they are called, the clear blue sky is discovered by the naked eye.

In that year a parhelion appeared undistinguishable by the naked eye from the real sun.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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