(a.) Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The perceived cyclopean motion was examined under five different conditions, in which the cyclopean pattern was moving either up or down, the luminant dots were: (1) moving in the cyclopean direction; (2) moving opposite to the cyclopean direction; (3) moving orthogonal to the cyclopean direction, (4) stationary; or (5) dynamic (dots uncorrelated in successive frames).
(2) This model simplifies to the classical VOR reflex when a cyclopean eye is subjected only to angular displacement.
(3) Cyclopean test displays would probe only the unadapted AND-mechanism.
(4) These results imply that there is a functional equivalence at some stage of the visual system between the mechanisms representing cyclopean and luminance stimuli.
(5) These findings link the stereoscopic (cyclopean) motion filters and the changing-size filters: both feed the same motion-in-depth stage.
(6) The discovery of cyclopean neurons in striate cortex, at early stages of the processing neural network for stereoscopic vision provides a new insight of the basic neural mechanisms underlying binocular depth perception.
(7) In one of their studies, it was shown that tilt aftereffects induced with cyclopean stimuli produced measurable effects only when testing was binocular, which suggested that cyclopean adaptation affects only the AND-gate mechanism.
(8) It is then shown that stereograms of inside-out faces (moulds) cease to be perceptually reversible only when the presentation is truly cyclopean.
(9) Both the between-eye differences and the linear relationship may be understood in terms of individual differences in the location of the cyclopean eye, an unequal weighting of the positions of the eyes in the processing of egocentric direction, or some combination of these two factors.
(10) The cyclopean illusion (Hering, 1861) is an anomalous lateral shift in the apparent direction to a monocularly seen target, which arises when a change in vergence is made by the opposite (nonobserving) eye.
(11) We propose that the visual pathway contains stereoscopic (cyclopean) motion filters that respond to only a narrow range of the directions of motion in depth.
(12) Four target and mask combinations were used: cyclopean target-cyclopean mask, luminance target-luminance mask, cyclopean target-luminance mask, and luminance target-cyclopean mask.
(13) We examined two explanations of the variation--that it is the result of the cyclopean eye being nearer to one eye, and that it is the result of a pervasive bias, within an individual, to make larger saccades either leftward or rightward.
(14) For the control of depth perception and the evaluation of stereoscopic acuity, two types of tests were programmed: line stereograms made of series of vertical lines varying in number and relative spacing or stylized shapes, random dot stereograms with different cyclopean shapes (circle, square, triangle or scaled pyramid), some of them with reduced binocular correlation according to Julesz.
(15) Moreover, significant interdomain masking also occurred, in equal measure for the cyclopean and luminance stimuli, although the magnitude of masking was one-half that of intradomain masking.
(16) To provide comparison data, observers were also tested with luminance-domain stimuli matched as closely as possible to their cyclopean counterparts.
(17) In the second class of models, it is assumed that the left- and right-eye patterns are first summed to form a "Cyclopean" eye.
(18) This is poor acuity in comparison to vernier thresholds with monocular contour, but if the limited resolution acuity for stereopsis is taken into account, cyclopean and monocular positional acuities can be considered quite similar in relation to their respective resolution limits.
(19) The interpretation of these findings in terms of luminance-domain spatial frequency filtering is challenged by experiments in which the same results were obtained with kinetic and cyclopean forms.
(20) This study investigated the perception of bistable stroboscopic motion (Ternus display) with cyclopean stimuli created from retinal disparity embedded in dynamic random-element stereograms, the responses to which arise at binocular-integration levels of the visual system.
Masonry
Definition:
(n.) The art or occupation of a mason.
(n.) The work or performance of a mason; as, good or bad masonry; skillful masonry.
(n.) That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar.
(n.) The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; freemasonry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The images, of corpses pulled out from beneath collapsed masonry, to a bloodied underground emergency room floor, are simply appalling.
(2) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
(3) Owners of the walls have cut out chunks of masonry and plaster to remove them for sale, mourned by local people who had enjoyed the eruption of art into their streets.
(4) The RPG launcher fired first, releasing a thundering boom, a huge cloud of dust and the sounds of cascading glass, metal and masonry.
(5) A 52-year-old senior officer in London [In] Tottenham I sustained in about the first seven or eight minutes a blow to the head from what must have been a piece of dense masonry.
(6) The Daily Telegraph contacted 50 masonry firms in their search for the stone, while the Sun set up a hotline for any information.
(7) A young Filipino family narrowly escaped injury when some of the shrapnel from masonry dislodged off the cemetery war hit their car.
(8) We treated fifteen patients who had been trapped under the masonry of collapsed buildings for various periods of time.
(9) The only clear view was in the front and there was definitely large bits of masonry and concrete being thrown.
(10) And the rubble itself, mountains of it: homes reduced to grey lumps of masonry, mangled metal, shards of glass.
(11) At Gaddafi's compound, supporters who gather nightly to act as human shields against the air strikes climbed on the shattered building shortly after the blasts, as chunks of masonry fell.
(12) By the time the funeral was over the streets were blocked by temporary barricades and littered with broken masonry, the tarmac scorched black after almost three days of rioting to protest against his murder, which Palestinians allege was carried out as a revenge attack for the killing of three Israeli teenagers .
(13) Within minutes to hours after extrication of survivors trapped under fallen masonry (and immediately following decompression of limbs), a massive volume of extracellular fluid is lost into the injured muscles, leading to circulatory failure.
(14) The Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday tried some investigative journalism to locate the boulder, contacting more than 50 masonry firms across the UK – none of whom admitted to creating the monument.
(15) The Guardian eventually tracked the stone down to a warehouse in south London , owned by Paye Stonework & Masonry Ltd.
(16) There was smoke and thick dust everywhere, fallen masonry and fittings were blocking sections of the steps and splinters of glass covered the staircase where Picasso’s sand-blasted lines hung undamaged.
(17) The remaining masonry stands against the dramatic backdrop of the Rumija mountains, with a reconstructed church and clock tower offering a haunting reminder of a time when this town was the most important in Montenegro.
(18) From rue Fontaine, bullets had ripped holes in the external masonry; inside you could see the shredded remains of furniture; the window frames had been shot out.
(19) The structures, selected from available buildings, were made of various materials (reinforced concrete, masonry, sandbags, and wood) and ranged in volume from 14m3 to 161 m3 with venting areas from 2.9 m2 to 11 m2.
(20) "There were a lot of police conscripts going inside and trying to find their friends, and there was masonry falling down on them in front of the building."