Eyewink

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An instant, a short moment. poetic

    "As to age, Bead could not form any clear impression; he might have been twenty, or forty. All of this visual perception occurred in an eyewink of time […]"

  2. 2
    The winking of an eye.

    "Dogs were conditioned to give an eyewink to light by pairing a light and a puff of air to the cornea."

Example

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"As to age, Bead could not form any clear impression; he might have been twenty, or forty. All of this visual perception occurred in an eyewink of time […]"

Etymology

From eye + wink.

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