augen

Scientific  

/ ou′gən /

1. A large mineral grain or grain cluster having the shape of an eye in cross-section and occurring in foliated metamorphic rocks such as schist and gneiss. Augens form when large mineral crystals are sheared and deformed during the process of metamorphism.

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Example Sentences

While there’s a wide understanding that Russia’s aggression marked a turning point, “it took a very long time to implement the changes in the German ministerial system, into the bureaucracy,” said Thomas Wiegold, a defense policy expert who runs the Augen geradeaus! military blog.

From Seattle Times

In “Leopoldstadt’s” final act, three family survivors, played by Jenna Augen, Arty Froushan and Brandon Uranowitz, gather in their looted ancestral home in Vienna 10 years after World War II. Froushan’s Leo — a transparent stand-in for Stoppard — has arrived from England, to which he was whisked away as a child, his Austrian Jewish identity long since Anglicized.

From Washington Post

When Leo professes ignorance about the family’s fate under the Nazis, Augen’s Rosa erupts: “That’s not an excuse, Leo!” she cries.

From Washington Post

The Defense Ministry on Tuesday confirmed a report in the German military blog Augen Geradeaus that officials and soldiers’ representatives agreed late Monday to add the coronavirus shot to the list of vaccines soldiers must get.

From Seattle Times

In “Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz,” from “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen,” the singer’s insistence that “all, all was well again / Ach, all well again” undermined itself through a slurring together of “alles, alles,” until it became a repressed wail.

From The New Yorker