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

Belonging to vision; as the visual angle, or that angle formed by the rays of light which enter the eye, from the extremities of any object.

From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Jones, Thomas P.

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

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 Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)