visual angle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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That means that you sampled about 3-16 square degrees of visual angle in the room, between the door and the chair; whereas your visual field is about 1200 square degrees in total.
From Scientific American
The critical central retina subtends an area of visual space of about 1 square degree of visual angle.
From Scientific American
It samples the location of the eye 2,000 times per second and has a spatial accuracy down to 0.15 degrees of visual angle.
From Washington Post
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
It seems almost everything we do now has a visual angle.
From BBC
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