naked eye
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈneɪ.kɪd aɪ/
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a simple vista
- At magnitude 5.4, Vesta can be seen with the naked eye from a dark site.
- invisible to the naked eye
- visible to the naked eye
- observe with the naked eye
All right, if you talk about astrophysics, do you know how many stars the naked eye can see at night?
- All right, if you talk about astrophysics, do you know how many stars the naked eye can see at night?
- I would feel energy, I would sense vibration, I would see particles move with my naked eye and I just didn't know what it was.
- So you don't have to get way down, super microscopic, but you can't see them with the naked eye.
- It almost looks HD, but with night vision, you can pick up infrared light that you can't with the naked eye.
- And one of the real pernicious challenges of lead is that it is invisible to the naked eye.
- You're saying that they did this out of granite by hand, by with the naked eye, No measuring.
Examples
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It's visible with the naked eye as a smudge under the three bright stars of Orion's belt.
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To the naked eye, a suit appears to consist of two parts...
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So yeah, anything that you see with your naked eye pretty much is going to be a star.
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With the naked eye, Peter... what do you see now?
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This is not visible to the naked eye.
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OK, How many stars can you see with the naked eye on a perfect night on a mountaintop?
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You could even see with the naked eye that it was so much fainter than it usually was.
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Although you can see Mercury with the naked eye, binoculars will help you to pick it out of the twilight.
Academic text (2004) -
M47 shines at 4th magnitude, bright enough to pick up easily with the naked eye from a dark-sky site.
Academic text (2006) -
You can see the Andromeda Galaxy with the naked eye on a clear night.
Synonyms
A person's own sight used to check something without machines
Antonyms
- Specialized
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4.1
A device with lenses or mirrors that helps you see things clearly
How Aided
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'vision without optical instruments' is directly derived from combining 'naked' (meaning without covering or unaided) and 'eye' (the organ of sight); there is no idiomatic shift. This compositional pattern exists in many languages and follows an obvious logic, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Naked eye imagines the eye as naked, meaning uncovered and without tools. So it means seeing something 'without instruments', for example without a telescope or a microscope.