scotic

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1. After dusk.

   Rods are used in low light conditions (scotic vision) hence the black and white appearance of night vision.

   1998, Adrian Secchia, A Perceptual Refinement Oracle for Hierarchical Radiosity (dissertation Univ. of Cape Town), April 1998

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   The term scotic (Gr. skotos, darkness) was therefore devised as the most apt term for the condition of virtual darkness.

   1965 Nov, Dale R. Calder, J. Sherman Bleakney, “Microarthropod Ecology of a Porcupine-Inhabited Cave in Nova Scotia”, in Ecology, volume 46, number 6, pages 895–899

   B. B. Thomas et al. show that the animal is nocturnal with their foraging habits during the scotic phase after the onset of darkness.

   2001, BB Thomas, MM Oommen, “Constant light and blinding effects on reproduction of male South Indian gerbils”, in J Exp Zool

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1. Of or relating to ancient Scotland.