visual angle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 will be human, and, as you know, comedy is but a matter of the visual angle.
From Tales Of Hearsay by Conrad, Joseph
By this arrangement a visual angle is secured, and all objects lying within it are distinctly visible at the same time.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Patterson, Robert
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