electric eye

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Origin of electric eye

First recorded in 1925–30

Words nearby electric eye

electric dipole moment, electric discharge, electric-discharge lamp, electric displacement, electric eel, electric eye, electric field, electric field intensity, electric field strength, electric fire, electric flux

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How to use electric eye in a sentence

Chortling with glee, Charon tottered back to his station and put one hand across the beam of a photo-electric eye.
Satan and the Comrades|Ralph Bennitt
So, when I pass before a light in the wall that plays on one electric eye, it causes the door to open.
Whispers at Dawn|Roy J. Snell
A mechanism containing an electric eye changes those light impulses back into sound impulses.
Whispers at Dawn|Roy J. Snell
Stonecypher moved his permit in ineffectual passes before the electric eye.
Thy Rocks and Rills|Robert Ernest Gilbert

I heard father say they were going to have an electric eye, that could see through walls and things.
Esther's Charge|Evelyn Everett-Green

British Dictionary definitions for electric eye

electric eye

noun

another name for photocell

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