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Eye of the Needle (novel)

Eye of the Needle, first published in the UK as Storm Island, is Ken Follett's 1978 spy thriller about a German agent who learns the D-Day secret.

Eye of the Tiger

Eye of the Tiger, Survivor's 1982 hard rock theme for Rocky III written by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan after Queen's song was unavailable; six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, four weeks atop the UK chart, Grammy winner and Oscar nominee.

Eye pattern

The eye pattern, also called an eye diagram or data eye, is an oscilloscope display of overlaid digital data segments whose opening reveals signal quality, noise, and jitter.

Eye relief

Eye relief is the distance from an eyepiece's outer lens surface to the eyepoint where the exit pupil forms; viewing from there shows the full field of view without vignetting.

Eye Security

Eye Security is a Dutch cybersecurity company founded in The Hague in 2020 by former Dutch intelligence employees, selling managed detection and response with cyber insurance.

Eye surgery

Eye surgery covers procedures on the eye, from cataract extraction (couching to phacoemulsification, Ridley's 1949 IOL) to LASIK, retinal, and glaucoma surgery; cataract surgery is the leading global blindness treatment.

Eye Temple

The Eye Temple is a prehistoric temple at Tell Brak, ancient Nagar, in north-eastern Syria, named for the thousands of small stone eye idols found there.

Eye tracking

Eye tracking, also called gaze tracking, is the measurement of eye position and movement over time, most often by video-oculography, which tracks the pupil and a corneal reflection.

Eye-in-hand configuration

The eye-in-hand configuration is a robot-vision arrangement with a camera rigidly mounted on the end-effector, moving with the arm; it contrasts with the fixed-camera eye-to-hand setup and requires hand-eye calibration.

Eye-to-hand configuration

The eye-to-hand configuration is a camera placement for vision-guided robots where a fixed camera outside the robot observes the manipulator, offering stable accuracy but risking occlusion.

Eyeball deformity

Eyeball deformity (ICD-11 9C22) covers abnormal globe size, shape, structure, or position: congenital anophthalmia, microphthalmia, buphthalmos, staphyloma, phthisis bulbi, enophthalmos, and proptosis.

Eyebio

EyeBio (Eyebiotech Limited) was a clinical-stage ophthalmology biotech founded in 2021 by David Guyer and Tony Adamis, developer of Restoret, acquired by MSD in 2024 for up to $3 billion.

Eyeblink conditioning

Eyeblink conditioning is a classical conditioning paradigm in which subjects learn to blink to a tone paired with an air puff, studied as a cerebellar learning model.

Eyebrow

The eyebrow (Ögonbryn) is the strip of terminal hair above each eye socket that shades the eye; mobile human eyebrows play a central role in facial expression and social communication.

Eyedea

Eyedea (Micheal Larsen, 1981-2010) was a St. Paul-born Minnesota battle rapper and Rhymesayers artist who won Scribble Jam 1999 and HBO's Blaze Battle 2000 and recorded three albums with DJ Abilities.

Eyedea & Abilities

Eyedea & Abilities were an American hip hop duo from Minneapolis, made up of rapper Micheal Larsen and DJ Gregory Keltgen and signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment.

Eyeglass prescription

Eyeglass prescription: written spectacle lens order (sphere, cylinder, axis, add, prism, PD) from a refractive eye exam, issued by ophthalmologists or optometrists; distinct from contact lens prescriptions, US release rules, 2024 FTC amendments.

Eyehategod

Eyehategod (EHG) is an American sludge/doom metal band formed 20 April 1988 in New Orleans by Jimmy Bower and Joey LaCaze; the Take as Needed for Pain (1993) pioneers of the NOLA sludge scene, still active on Century Media.

Eyelash

An eyelash is one of the short hairs, usually in 2 to 3 rows along the eyelid margin, that protect the eye and reduce tear evaporation.

Eyelid

Eyelid (palpebra): the thin skin-muscle fold protecting the eye and spreading the tear film. Key facts: thinnest body skin, tarsal plates, meibomian glands, levator and orbicularis muscles, blepharitis, blepharoplasty.

Eyelid avulsion

Eyelid avulsion (ICD-11 NA06.00): traumatic tearing away of part or all of an eyelid, usually from blunt trauma, often with canalicular injury; repaired with stenting, flaps, or grafts.

Eyelid nystagmus

Eyelid nystagmus (lid nystagmus), ICD-11 9C84.6, is a rare slow rhythmic involuntary oscillation of the upper eyelids via the levator palpebrae, first described by Pick in 1916, occurring in convergence-evoked, gaze-evoked, and ocular-nystagmus-coupled forms linked to brainstem or cerebellar lesions.

Eyelid retraction

Eyelid retraction: abnormally high upper or low lower lid position, mostly from thyroid eye disease; causes exposure keratopathy; treated with lubrication, injections, or retractor-lengthening surgery (85% success).

Eyelid sebaceous carcinoma

Eyelid sebaceous carcinoma, also called sebaceous gland carcinoma or meibomian gland carcinoma, is a rare, aggressive eyelid cancer of the oil glands, frequently misdiagnosed and treated mainly with Mohs surgery.

Eyelid trauma

Eyelid trauma is injury to eyelid tissues from blunt or penetrating forces, from black eyes to lacerations, and frequently accompanies eye or orbital injuries needing urgent evaluation.

Eyepiece

An eyepiece, also called an ocular, is the lens or lens assembly at the end of a telescope or microscope through which the eye views the image.

Eyes Closed (Jisoo and Zayn song)

"Eyes Closed" is a 2025 duet single by BLACKPINK's Jisoo and former One Direction singer Zayn, released October 10, 2025 via Warner Records and Blissoo; it debuted at number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100, Jisoo's first solo entry.

Eyes in the Trees

Eyes in the Trees is an upcoming American sci-fi horror thriller directed by Timothy Woodward Jr., reimagining H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau, starring Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Addis with Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ashley Greene; filmed in Thailand, release date unconfirmed.

Eyes of Laura Mars

Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) is an American suspense thriller directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Faye Dunaway as a fashion photographer who witnesses murders through a serial killer's eyes; scripted by John Carpenter and David Zelag Goodman, produced by Jon Peters for Columbia.

Eyes of Wakanda

Eyes of Wakanda (Hatut Zeraze / War Dogs) is a 2025 Marvel Animation and Proximity Media four-episode Disney+ animated anthology, created by Todd Harris, following Wakandan spies recovering Vibranium artifacts across history.