Contents

English

Wikipedia has an article on: Blind spot

Noun

Singular blind spot

Plural blind spots

blind spot (plural blind spots)

  1. The place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina, and so where the retina cannot detect light.
  2. 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.
  3. (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.
  4. A location where radio reception and/or transmission is significantly poorer than in surrounding locations.

References

Category: English nouns

 

The above information uses material from Wiktionary and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Wed Jul 28 05:38:19 2010. [ refresh local cache ]
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.

[Hide]▼
[Hide]▲