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 Translation for 'blind spot' from English to French
NOUN   a blind spot | blind spots
SYNO blind spot | optic disc | optic disk
auto
angle {m} mort
blind spot
3 Words
psych.
biais {m} de la tâche aveugle
bias blind spot
Partial Matches
pastille {f} [petit disque rond]spot [dot]
grain {m} de beauté [visage]beauty spot
découvrir qc.to spot sth.
sport
point {m} de réparation
penalty spot
lieu {m} de rencontremeeting spot
coin {m} retirésecluded spot
repérer qn. [découvrir]to spot sb.
10
endroit {m} sensiblesensitive spot
traficurban
aire {f} de stationnement
parking spot
comm.
vente {f} en disponible
spot sale
anat.méd.
tache {f} de vieillesse
age spot
maillon {m} faibleweak spot
endroit {m} chaudtrouble spot
myth.
talon {m} d'Achille [fig.]
tender spot [fig.]
ichtyo.T
piranha {m} aux oreilles noires [Pygocentrus cariba]
black spot piranha
talon {m} d'Achilleweak spot [fig.]
orn.T
vanneau {m} d'Abyssinie [Vanellus melanocephalus]
spot-breasted lapwing
ichtyo.T
mérou {m} camouflage [Epinephelus polyphekadion]
snout-spot grouper
sociol.trafic
place {f} de stationnement pour personnes handicapées
handicapped parking spot
entom.T
zygène {f} de la spirée [Zygaena filipendulae]
six-spot burnet
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Usage Examples English
  • Kemp didn't believe in limits to growth, a blind spot shared by any politicians of his era and which prompted him to dismiss the 1991 Report of the United Nations Population Fund as "nonsense".
  • Harvard University's implicit-association test measures implicit "attitudes and beliefs" about "Young vis a vis Old". "Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People", a book about the test, reports that 80% of Americans have an "automatic preference for the young over old" and that attitude is true worldwide.
  • It can progress to enlargement of the blind spot, blurring of vision, visual obscurations (inability to see in a particular part of the visual field for a period of time).
  • Some of these features included all wheel drive, cross traffic alert, collision warning, blind spot monitoring and adaptive cruise control.
  • Rods are distributed throughout the retina but there are none at the fovea and none at the blind spot.

  • The eye's blind spot is a result of the absence of photoreceptors in the area of the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye.
  • By the end of the series, Zoidberg has largely corrected his medical blind spot concerning human anatomy, as demonstrated by Marianne's transplant and his earlier complete re-assembling of Hermes' body from cast-off parts.
  • One apprentice wrote: "He is devoid of consideration and has a blind spot regarding others' qualities.
  • In the field of education there is a potential "expert blind spot" (see also Dunning–Kruger effect) in newly practicing educators who are experts in their content area.
  • To complete the movement, one moves out of the opponent's line of attack to the opponent's shikaku, or blind spot.

  • In telecommunications, antenna blind cone (sometimes called a cone of silence or antenna blind spot) is the volume of space, usually approximately conical with its vertex at the antenna, that cannot be scanned by an antenna because of limitations of the antenna radiation pattern and mount.
  • Trucks must be fitted with blind-spot mirrors that give drivers a wider field of vision than conventional mirrors.
  • As a result of the position of the eyes in its skull, the rabbit has a field of vision that encompasses nearly 360 degrees, with just a small blind spot at the bridge of the nose.
  • New for 2009 was an optional "sport" suspension system as well as a blind-spot warning system and "Cross Path Detection" with sensors to warn of cars or other obstacles when backing out of a parking space.
  • One phenomenon travelers in hyperspace can experience is the so-called 'blind spot' should they look through a porthole or camera screen, giving the impression that the walls around the porthole or sides of the camera view screen are expanding to 'cover up the outside'.

  • However, since Wallace argues that the correlates of consciousness are not equivalent to "consciousness itself", this method creates a blind spot in cognitive science (which also ignores the hard problem of consciousness).
  • In this work Hollier discusses how Bataille uses the concept of a "pineal-eye" as a reference to a blind-spot in Western rationality, and an organ of excess and delirium.
  • The jaguar attacks from cover and usually from a target's blind spot with a quick pounce; the species' ambushing abilities are considered nearly peerless in the animal kingdom by both indigenous people and field researchers and are probably a product of its role as an apex predator in several different environments.
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