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SACCADE (noun) [sa-KAHD]

 

A small, rapid movement of the eye

"Watching Henry as he turned the pages of Gravity's Rainbow, I was fascinated by the saccades of his left eye, which seemed to oscillate faster than his right." (TWITO, page 129)