scotopic
- adjective
- /skəˈtɒpɪk/
- Specialized
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escotópico
- Impaired scotopic vision makes mobility at night and in dim illumination difficult.
- scotopic sensitivity
Examples
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Photographers often use special techniques to enhance scotopic images taken in low light.
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I suffer from Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome, a form of dyslexia, which is an impairment to the photoreceptors in the eye.
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Thousands of children are affected by Scotopic Sensitivity (Helen Irlen), which hampers their ability to read or focus, particularly under fluorescent lights.
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She claimed that persons with scotopic sensitivity suffered from blurring or movement of print, restricted span of focus, and problems with focusing over an extended period of time.
Academic text (1992) -
In the Martin et al. (1993) investigation, inferences about the effect of background color on a single population were not possible because the authors compared qualitatively different groups, namely intervention students with LD and with scotopic sensitivity and control students with LD but without scotopic sensitivity.
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In the Martin et al. (1993) investigation, inferences about the effect of background color on a single population were not possible because the authors compared qualitatively different groups, namely intervention students with LD and with scotopic sensitivity and control students with LD but without scotopic sensitivity.
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In the remaining studies, Martin, Mackenzie, Lovegrove, and McNicol (1993) provided colored glasses to improve text readability for students with scotopic sensitivity, a condition reported to visually distort black text on a white background.
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Many people with scotopic vision find it hard to see clearly at night without additional lighting.
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The scotopic conditions at dusk made it challenging to navigate the trail safely.
Antonyms
- Specialized
Relating to vision in bright daylight when the eye uses cone cells to see color
Compounds
How Light-Sensitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
scotopic = scot + op + ic
Formed from classical combining forms for 'darkness' and 'vision' that are not productive standalone English words for most learners, so the meaning is not readily inferable from common vocabulary.
Etymology
Scotopic comes from the old Greek word skotos meaning 'darkness' and the part -opic, like optic, meaning 'eye'. So scotopic is like 'dark-eye', which explains why it means vision in very low light.
