electric eye in English

noun
1
a photoelectric cell operating a relay when the beam of light illuminating it is obscured.
Tierney is uncertain why he is in New York, but admits that he is somehow drawn to ‘this world of moving staircases, electric eyes , efficient loud-speakers, like a moth to the bright light’.
noun

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1. I'm engaging a system of electric-eye beams that surround it.

2. The doors swung open after a photocell — an " electric eye " — spied my approach.