visual angle

British  

noun

1. the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye

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Example Sentences

The words sharp and pungent both originally meant something tactile and visual: something that feels pointy or subtends a small visual angle, but both words can be applied to tastes and smells as well.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2014

This meant declaring the artifice of pose, cropping, lighting and visual angle, as conscious elements of subject.

From Time Magazine Archive

Barbican caught the idea like lightning, and, seizing a compass, he began through the floor window to measure the visual angle of the distant Earth.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

His opinion, in short, is this; we judge not of the magnitude of an object by the visual angle alone, but by the visual angle in conjunction with the distance.

From A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision by Berkeley, George

In order to compensate for the variation in visual angle, there must be a series of rectangles increasing considerably in height toward the top.

From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Luckiesh, Matthew