visual angle

British  

noun

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

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visual angle

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

There are certain principles to be assumed,—such as these:—He who is carried by horses must deal with rogues.—To-day's dinner subtends a larger visual angle than yesterday's revolution.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various

Give me three or four minutes of visual angle and I'll believe anything, but none of these stars are big enough to have any visual angle at all.

From The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

The length of the blowpipe is generally seven or eight inches, but this depends very much upon the visual angle of the operators.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous