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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

blind spot

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Source Word

blind spot

Noun

figuratively

The place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina, and so where the retina cannot detect light. / (automotive) In driving, the part of the road that cannot be seen in the rear-view mirror.

Japanese Meaning

網膜が光を受容できない部分、特に視神経が網膜に接続する部分。 / 自動車運転において、バックミラーに映らず視界に入らない道路の一部。

What is this buttons?

When you close one eye and focus on a point, the blind spot—the place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina—creates a small area you cannot see.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

片目を閉じて一点を見つめると、視神経が網膜に付着する場所である盲点があり、そこでは小さな領域を見えなくします。

Sense（1）

The place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina, and so where the retina cannot detect light.

Sense（2）

(automotive) In driving, the part of the road that cannot be seen in the rear-view mirror.

When he changed lanes, he sideswiped a car that was in his blind spot.

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Sense（3）

When he changed tracks, he sideswiped a railway worker that was in his blind spot.

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Sense（4）

Sense（5）

(figuratively) An inability to recognize a fact or think clearly about a certain topic, especially because of a prejudice.

He loves her so much that he has a blind spot when it comes to her faults.

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Sense（6）

The new study addresses the blind spot created by previous research having excluded healthy adult subjects.

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Sense（7）

(telecommunications) A location where radio reception and/or transmission is significantly poorer than in surrounding locations.

Sense（8）

(seismology) A location around earthquake epicentre that prone to earthquake.

blind spots

（ plural ）

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