cyclopean
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The idea led to the Fast Outgoing Cyclopean Astronomical Lens mission, proposed to the European Space Agency in 1993.
From Science Magazine
What, though, to make of the mantis, owner of the cyclopean ear?
From Scientific American
Praying mantises have a single, “cyclopean” ear in the middle of their chest.
From Scientific American
Rachmaninoff’s humbling presence, re-encountered, is gigantic, cyclopean.
In the mid-sixties, Morley uncorked a novel style—painstakingly copying banal postcard, travel-brochure, and calendar images of ships and vacation spots or of reproduced paintings, most notably Vermeer’s “The Art of Painting”—which art historians generally credit as the starting gun for Photo-Realism, a movement that engaged scores of painters in diffident imitations of the camera’s Cyclopean eye.
From The New Yorker
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