visual acuity
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of visual acuity
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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On average, participants' visual acuity improved by 5 lines; one improved by 12 lines.
From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 2025
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
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
He had taken a blind person on a similar trip once before - but, because every non-sighted person has varying levels of visual acuity, we still needed to get to know each other.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 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
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