The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cat's-eye \Cat's"-eye`\ (k[a^]ts"[imac]`), n. (Min.) A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context mineral English) A gemstone mineral (a variety of chalcedonic quartz) that has a lustre resembling the eye of a cat when cut ''en cabochon'' 2 (context British NZ English) Any of a chain of reflecting studs used to demarcate traffic lanes. n. 1 (context mineral English) A gemstone mineral (a variety of chalcedonic quartz) that has a lustre resembling the eye of a cat when cut ''en cabochon'' 2 (context British NZ English) Any of a chain of reflecting studs used to demarcate traffic lanes.
Usage examples of "cat's-eye".
The cat's-eye stones the local people were wearing-which were more properly called chrysoberyls - were not only beautiful and sacred, according to Nadhari's lesson on Makahomian culture, but also very useful in the mining and terraforming industries across the universe.
These were used in the galactic mining of the cat's-eye chrysoberyls, and should also serve to either poison the priests or drive them out of the stronghold, where they would perish in the waterless vastness of the desert.
Your plot to sell and personally profit from the sale of the cat's-eye chrysoberyls held sacred by the local populace is known to them.
When good-byes had been said all around, the high priest made a gesture and a procession of priests bearing the largest and finest of the cat's-eye chrysoberyls began handing them to the guests and conveying them to the flitters.
Our task is to show that, just as there is more to memory than a wax tablet, a willing office boy or an ensemble of artificial neurons, there is also more than just the taste of a madeleine or the feel of a cat's-eye.