over-accommodated
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
adj
Involving a focal point that falls behind the retina.
adj
Having an excessive level of accommodation.
Example Sentences
- "The eye is under-accommodated for near objects but over-accommodated for distant ones."
- "If the eye is over-accommodated the derivative of the changes in lens power and the derivative of the changes in contrast will have the opposite signs as these two signals will be out of phase; and vice versa for an under-accommodated eye."
Etymology
From over-accommodate + -ed.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over
- Suffix: over-accommodate
Inflected Forms
more over-accommodated (comparative)
most over-accommodated (superlative)