A blink tank, on the other hand, focuses on higher than usual evasiveness and / or misdirection effects such as " shadow images ", so as to prevent the damage from landing on the player in the first place.

For example, against slower, less accurate enemies, a blink tank is ideal.

In the proper setup, a blink tank will take hardly any damage at all, thus allowing party member resources that would otherwise be focused on the survival of the tank to be directed elsewhere, such as increasing DPS or enfeebling the enemy.

In Final Fantasy XI, blood tanks are of the Paladin and ( to a lesser extent ) Warrior classes, and blink tanks are of the Ninja and ( to a lesser extent ) Thief classes, although recent changes to the overall level cap and abilities of certain classes have expanded what classes can tank in certain specialized situations.

# Make sure patient is in an actual comatose state and is not mistaken for locked-in state ( patient will either be able to voluntarily move his eyes or blink ) or psychogenic unresponsiveness ( caloric stimulation of the vestibular apparatus will result in slow deviation of eyes towards the stimulation followed by rapid correction to mid-line ; this response can't be voluntarily suppressed: therefore, if the patient doesn't have this response, then psychogenic coma can be ruled out as a differential )

; Ma: A Japanese term that can mean " interval " or " space " ( i. e., 「 あ 」 という間 ; the space it takes to say ' あ '; compare " in the blink of an eye ").

Kinsella argues that property rights can only apply to scarce resources ; thus, if a new lawnmower could be magically conjured up out of nothing in the blink of an eye, it would not be theft to steal one.

Fortunately, computers are best suited for trial and error ; they do not succumb to the boredom that humans do, can test physical challenges in a virtual environment where they will not do harm, and can potentially do thousands of trial-and-error segments in the blink of an eye.

The nictitating membrane ( from Latin nictare, to blink ) is a transparent or translucent third eyelid present in some animals that can be drawn across the eye for protection and to moisten it while maintaining visibility.

Dry eyes can be exacerbated by smoky environments, dust and air conditioning and by our natural tendency to reduce our blink rate when concentrating.

The blinking technique can easily be performed on a computer screen rather than with a physical blink comparator apparatus as before.

A scar on the upper lid can cause discomfort as some patients feel the scar as they blink.

If the laser is sufficiently powerful, permanent damage can occur within a fraction of a second, literally faster than the blink of an eye.

These beams strike the Earth at very regular intervals, similarly to the way that the rotating beam of a lighthouse means that an observer sees the lighthouse blink, and can be observed as a highly regular series of pulses.

The system does this quicker than the human eye can blink, so passengers cannot notice the sudden change in brightness.

They are also described in these three pages as being incredibly swift-moving, able to move so quickly that after revealing themselves, they were “ gone ,” quicker than a human can blink or draw breath.

Unlike in most platform games of the era, Milon does not " blink " to become briefly invincible when he is attacked by an enemy, which means his energy can be sapped very quickly if he does not move away.

But he was also known as a hard-working executive whose gentle facial features were balanced with intense eyes described by one reporter as: " like that of the great eagle in the cage at the Tampa Bay Hotel, that can look straight at the sun without a tear, or even a blink.

Light at this wavelength is rather dangerous to vision, since it can be focused by the eye's lens onto the retina, but the light is invisible and does not trigger the blink reflex.

Her weapon is the deadly shock-baton, " Durandal " ( which she can " char blue whales in the blink of an eye ).

* Attentional blink – The mind focuses longer on certain words which may strike an emotional chord, which can put the reader behind in a sequence.

Bob Munden, regarded as the fastest man with a gun ever, is a well-known exhibition shooter who can draw, fire, break a balloon target with a blank using a standard weight single-action revolver and return his gun to his holster in the blink of an eye.

in one-sixth of a second, faster than the eye can blink.

By creating multiple pockets which are linked together, Elric can run through them, and seem to rapidly blink in-and-out of existence.

The attentional blink can be moderated by changes in visual similarity between targets and distractor stimuli, but it can also be affected by conceptual similarities, suggesting that stimuli are processed to quite a deep level preconsciously, with much of the resulting information discarded before it reaches consciousness.

The blink comparator is an instrument that is used to compare two nearly identical photographs made of the same section of sky at different points in time.

It is a myth that women blink nearly twice as much as men.

He was able to blink, nod and squeeze with his hands, though doctors are still awaiting test results to see what the extent of the damage was, if any, to his brain.

As noted above, silence was often used masterfully ; a 1949 Oakland Tribune article by John Crosby notes, " There are long, long pauses, so long sometimes you wonder if your radio has gone on the blink.

He tells Paula that if she wants to leave, he will open the door and get out of her way but also threatens to blink twice if she does so.

A routinely recommended approach is to consciously blink the eyes every now and then ( this helps replenish the tear film ) and to look out the window to a distant object or to the sky — doing so provides rest to the ciliary muscles.

It is controlled by hand gestures, blink patterns, where the user is looking, clicks of the tongue, etc.

Some sources have given 2: 10 as the mark where the timer begins to blink.

One such reason is that the planetary nebula phase for more massive stars belonging to younger clusters is on the order of thousands of years — a blink of the eye in cosmic terms.

The effect is commonly indicated by making the player character flash or blink or by musical cues.

Once passed the truck, it is socially expected that the driver blink his / her hazard lights once as a " Thank You " message.

This is a reference to a feature in early versions of Netscape that would make bad tags blink, as seen in the source code comments from the Book of Mozilla.

After many CS-US pairings, an association is formed such that a learned blink, or conditioned response ( CR ), occurs and precedes US onset.

Some scientists think that the Interpositus nucleus is the site critical to learning, retaining, and executing the conditioning blink response.

Immediately preceding tic onset, most individuals are aware of an urge that is similar to the need to yawn, sneeze, blink, or scratch an itch.

To close and open, or " wink ", both eyes is usually an involuntary action known as a " blink ".

It is a geological blink.

It glows faint in the blink breaks while transmitter works as result of the high electric field at the top, when transmitter is working.

The main headquarter of which is just in a blink of 136 kilometers east of Kathmandu.

A fully paralyzed patient is unable to move, speak, blink the eyes, or otherwise respond to the pain.

When an animal ( usually human ) chooses to blink only one eye as a signal to another in a social setting ( a form of body language ), it is known as winking.

Also, when the eyes move, there is often a blink ; the blink is thought to help the eye shift its target point.