NAKED EYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does naked eye mean? 

• NAKED EYE (noun)
  The noun NAKED EYE has 1 sense:

1. the eye unaided by any optical instrument that alters the power of vision or alters the apparent size or distance of objects

  Familiarity information: NAKED EYE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAKED EYE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The eye unaided by any optical instrument that alters the power of vision or alters the apparent size or distance of objects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Context example:

it is not safe to look directly at the sun with the naked eye

Hypernyms ("naked eye" is a kind of...):

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)

 Context examples 

I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Infrared wavelengths of light are longer than visible light and cannot be seen with the naked eye.

(Studies Find Echoes of Black Holes Eating Stars, NASA)

A dish, or culture, of neuronal cells appears uniform to the naked eye and the different, individual cells in it cannot be seen.

(Scientists teach computers how to analyze brain cells, National Institutes of Health)

Once the plastic undergoes this transformation, its original form disappears from the environment, and it forms entirely new byproducts that cannot be seen by the naked eye.

(Sunlight degrades polystyrene faster than expected, National Science Foundation)

Terminology for the test names concerned with the findings from a specimen that are visible to the naked eye.

(CDISC SEND Macroscopic Findings Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Terminology for the test codes concerned with the findings from a specimen that are visible to the naked eye.

(CDISC SEND Macroscopic Findings Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Parasites range in size from tiny, one-celled organisms called protozoa to worms that can be seen with the naked eye.

(Parasitic Diseases, NIH)

An Earth-size planet passing in front of a small ultra-cool dwarf star like TRAPPIST-1 creates less than a one percent dip in brightness, and is not visible with the naked eye.

(Light From An Ultra-Cool Neighbor, NASA)

I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Microbial species are forms of life too small to be seen with the naked eye, including single-celled organisms such as bacteria and archaea, as well as certain fungi.

(Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species, NSF)