"electric eye" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "electric eyes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "electric eye (plural electric eyes)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1928 February 10, “Span Atlantic by Electric Eye”, in Spokesman-Review, Spokane, USA, retrieved 2013-11-14, page 1",
          "text": "A man and woman sat before an electric eye in a London laboratory tonight and a group of people in a darkened room in this village outside New York watched them turn their heads move from side to side.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 November 29, Richard Perez-Pena, “Rail Accident Stirs Debate About Sensors”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-11-14",
          "text": "Another frequently cited possibility is a system of electric eyes reading beams of light that are aimed along tracks so that any displacement of the rails would disrupt the beam.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 May 10, Gary Shapiro, “Botanical Garden Will Unveil Eight New Greenhouses”, in New York Sun, retrieved 2013-11-14",
          "text": "The doors have electric eyes: \"If you're carrying large specimens or carts full of plants, the electric eye beam is broken and the door opens up.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sensor which measures the intensity of light, often used to start and stop electrical equipment (motorized doors, etc.)."
      ],
      "id": "en-electric_eye-en-noun-K~4~si-s",
      "links": [
        [
          "sensor",
          "sensor"
        ],
        [
          "intensity",
          "intensity"
        ],
        [
          "motorize",
          "motorize"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "photocell"
        },
        {
          "word": "photoelectric cell"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "sensor which measures the intensity of light",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "súil leictreach"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "electric eye"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "electric eyes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "electric eye (plural electric eyes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1928 February 10, “Span Atlantic by Electric Eye”, in Spokesman-Review, Spokane, USA, retrieved 2013-11-14, page 1",
          "text": "A man and woman sat before an electric eye in a London laboratory tonight and a group of people in a darkened room in this village outside New York watched them turn their heads move from side to side.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 November 29, Richard Perez-Pena, “Rail Accident Stirs Debate About Sensors”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-11-14",
          "text": "Another frequently cited possibility is a system of electric eyes reading beams of light that are aimed along tracks so that any displacement of the rails would disrupt the beam.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 May 10, Gary Shapiro, “Botanical Garden Will Unveil Eight New Greenhouses”, in New York Sun, retrieved 2013-11-14",
          "text": "The doors have electric eyes: \"If you're carrying large specimens or carts full of plants, the electric eye beam is broken and the door opens up.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sensor which measures the intensity of light, often used to start and stop electrical equipment (motorized doors, etc.)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sensor",
          "sensor"
        ],
        [
          "intensity",
          "intensity"
        ],
        [
          "motorize",
          "motorize"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "photocell"
    },
    {
      "word": "photoelectric cell"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "sensor which measures the intensity of light",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "súil leictreach"
    }
  ],
  "word": "electric eye"
}