inferior oblique

the extrinsic eye muscle that rotates the eyeball upward if it contracts when the eye is pointing toward the nose and contributes to upward motion (together with the inferior rectus) if it contracts when the eye is pointing straight ahead.

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April 28th 2024

distributed processing

information processing in which computations are made across a series of processors or units, rather than being handled in a single, dedicated central processor. See also parallel distributed processing; parallel processing.