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

This whole vast space was covered with buffalo, looking at a distance like one compact mass, the visual angle not permitting the ground to be seen.

From The Extermination of the American Bison by Hornaday, William Temple

—To-day's dinner subtends a larger visual angle than yesterday's revolution.

From Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It was divided by vertical partitions of black cardboard into ten compartments, each slightly wider than the aperture to correspond with the visual angle.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo