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naked eye

Part of speech: noun
How common: Uncommon
Letters: 8

naked eye is a noun meaning "the eye unaided by any optical instrument that alters the power of vision or alters the apparent size or distance of objects". It carries one recorded sense.

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
the eye unaided by any optical instrument that alters the power of vision or alters the apparent size or distance of objects
“it is not safe to look directly at the sun with the naked eye”
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What does naked eye mean?: naked eye means "the eye unaided by any optical instrument that alters the power of vision or alters the apparent size or distance of objects".
Is naked eye a common word?: naked eye is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for naked eye come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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Semantic field: noun.body

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