greeble
/ˈɡɹiːbliː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object and add visual interest, particularly in movie special effects.
noun
Any of a set of invented novel objects used as stimuli in psychological studies of object and face recognition.
Example Sentences
- "Because, compared to other objects, face recognition seems to be especially sensitive to stimulus orientation, Gauthier had subjects perform a matching task with upright or inverted faces and greebles in the scanner, hypothesizing that greeble expertise would be specific to viewing them in the trained, upright orientation."
- "We're going to greeble the surface of the model to give it a more convincing look."
Etymology
* A neologism that was originally coined and used by the prop-makers from Industrial Light & Magic while working on production of the original Star Wars film. * The objects in psychology were named by the American psychologist Robert Abelson.