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electric eye
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Origin of electric eye1
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Example Sentences
Chortling with glee, Charon tottered back to his station and put one hand across the beam of a photo-electric eye.
So, when I pass before a light in the wall that plays on one electric eye, it causes the door to open.
A mechanism containing an electric eye changes those light impulses back into sound impulses.
Stonecypher moved his permit in ineffectual passes before the electric eye.
I heard father say they were going to have an electric eye, that could see through walls and things.
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