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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
noun
- the convex eye of insects and some crustaceans, consisting of numerous separate light-sensitive units (ommatidia) See also ocellus
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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Word History and Origins
Origin of compound eye1
First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences
The eye of a crustacean is a very complicated structure, commonly described as a compound eye.
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Looked at in front, a compound eye may be considered an agglomeration of simple eyes; but internally this is hardly correct.
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Huyghens also invented the compound eye-piece that bears his name, made of two convex lenses to diminish spherical aberration.
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In the first place a compound eye is formed on each side of the median eye.
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On the compound eye of a butterfly as many as 17,325 facettes have been counted.
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