visual acuity

American  

noun

Ophthalmology.

1. acuteness of the vision as determined by a comparison with the normal ability to define certain letters at a given distance, usually 20 feet (6 meters). V.

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Etymology

Origin of visual acuity

First recorded in 1885–90

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visual acuity

To do this, the team performed a cohort study and looked at the visual acuity of 967 Japanese patients at TDMU's Advanced Clinical Center for Myopia after 3 and 5 years had passed.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

Each variable is assigned a line with a length that indicates how important it is for predicting visual acuity.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

Like the hugely successful early 20th century L.A. landscape painter Granville Redmond, who was also deaf, Castle is sometimes claimed to have compensated for his hearing loss through an increased power in visual acuity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

His left eye had post-traumatic cataract complications and has 60% visual acuity.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2022

Even if they’re looking at the road, he’d found, their visual acuity was impaired by the cognitive demand of the phone.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel