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PRONUNCIATION OF VISUAL ANGLE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VISUAL ANGLE

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Visual angle is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VISUAL ANGLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Visual angle

The visual angle is the angle a viewed object subtends at the eye, usually stated in degrees of arc. It also is called the object's angular size. The diagram on the right shows an observer's eye looking at a frontal extent that has a linear size, located in the distance from point. For present purposes, point can represent the eye's nodal points at about the center of the lens, and also represent the center of the eye's entrance pupil that is only a few millimeters in front of the lens. The three lines from object endpoint heading toward the eye indicate the bundle of light rays that pass through the cornea, pupil and lens to form an optical image of endpoint on the retina at point. The central line of the bundle represents the chief ray Likewise for object point and its retinal image at. The visual angle is the angle between the chief rays for and.

Definition of visual angle in the English dictionary

The definition of visual angle in the dictionary is the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VISUAL ANGLE

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visual field
visual handicap
visual impairment
visual magnitude
visual purple
visual violet
visualisation
visualiser
visualist
visuality
visualization
visualize
visualizer

WORDS THAT END LIKE VISUAL ANGLE

angle
bangle
Bermuda Triangle
dangle
dihedral angle
golden triangle
love triangle
mangle
quadrangle
rectangle
right angle
right-angled triangle
round angle
single
solid angle
strangle
tangle
the Golden Triangle
triangle
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warning triangle

Synonyms and antonyms of visual angle in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «visual angle» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VISUAL ANGLE

Find out the translation of visual angle to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of visual angle from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «visual angle» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

视角
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ángulo visual
570 millions of speakers

English

visual angle
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दृश्य कोण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

زاوية بصرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

угол обзора
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ângulo visual
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চাক্ষুষ কোণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

angle visuel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sudut visual
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gesichtswinkel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

視角
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

시각
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sudut pandang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

góc nhìn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காட்சி கோணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्हिज्युअल कोन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

görüş açısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

angolo di visuale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kąt widzenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кут огляду
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

unghi vizual
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οπτική γωνία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

visuele hoek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

synvinkel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

visuell vinkel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of visual angle

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VISUAL ANGLE»

The term «visual angle» is regularly used and occupies the 79.983 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VISUAL ANGLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about visual angle

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VISUAL ANGLE»

Discover the use of visual angle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to visual angle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Perception of Visual Information
Spatial frequency is the number of cycles of the grating per unit length, sometimes described as the number of cycles per degree of visual angle (cpd). A fingernail at arm's length subtends about one degree of visual angle. The ligth and dark ...
William R. Hendee, Peter N.T. Wells, 1997
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Sensation and Perception
What IS Visual Angle? Visual angle is the angle ofan object relative to the observer's eye. Figure 10.27a shows how we determine the visual angle ofa stimulus (a person, in this example) by extending lines from the person to the lens ofthe ...
E. Goldstein, 2013
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Textbook of Ophthalmology
Athiya Agarwal HISTORY Herman Snellen was the first to measure visual acuity. VISUAL ANGLE Definition Visual angle is defined as the angle subtended by an object at the nodal point (Fig. 19.1). In Figure 19.1 angle ANB is the visual angle.
Sunita Agarwal, Athiya Agarwal, Lucio Buratto, 2002
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Biology: A Functional Approach. Students' Manual
visual angle Figure 19.1 The theoretical basis of visual acuity of the eye. Requirements White card Felt pen Ruler Tape measure Snellen chart The visual acuity of the eye, i.e. its efficiency at seeing things clearly, depends on its resolving ...
M. B. V. Roberts, T. J. King, 1987
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Theory And Practice Of Optics And Refraction
In terms of visual angle, the visual acuity is defined as the reciprocal of the minimum resolvable visual angle measured in minutes of arc for a standard test pattern. Therefore, to understand visual acuity, the knowledge about visual angle is ...
Khurana, 2008
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Visual Selective Attention: A Special Issue of Visual Cognition
Three of the main effects were significant: attention condition, F(1, 21) = 18.64, p < 0.003; congruity, F(1, 21) = 139.90, p < 0.001; and visual angle, F(2, 42) = 23.24, p< 0.001. The effect of exposure duration was not significant, nor did it interact ...
Glyn W. Humphreys, H. Bundesen, Claus Bundesen, 1998
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Train Accident Reconstruction and FELA and Railroad Litigation
The denominator tells the distance which the letter must be from the eye in order to produce a visual angle of five minutes. If the letter produces a visual angle of five minutes when it is twenty feet from the eye then it is the “20 letter.” If the letter  ...
James R. Loumiet, William G. Jungbauer, Bernard S. Abrams, 2005
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Visual Space Perception: A Primer
McCready (1965, 1985, 1986) noted that perceived visual angle a' is usually assumed to be equal to the actual visual angle: a' = a. In this view, linear and angular size responses are treated as two ways of measuring the same perceptual ...
Maurice Hershenson, 1999
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Foundations of Perception
The most frequently used measure is visual angle: the angle subtended by the object at the centre (nodal point) of the lens. Visual angle depends jointly on the size of the object and its viewing distance. If visual angle is relatively small ( 10° or ...
George Mather, 2006
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Visual Perception: An Introduction, 3rd Edition
Figure 8.3 The relationship between perceived size, perceived distance and visual angle, as expressed by size-distance invariance. An object ofa given physical size (S), at a given physical distance (D), subtends an angle of θ deg at the eye.
Nicholas Wade, Mike Swanston, 2013

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VISUAL ANGLE»

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Excite Audiences by Finding the Visual Angle of Your Brand
Today's visual social platforms are more popular than ever. Pinterest and Instagram flood the Internet with images, which are twice as likely to be shared as text. «Entrepreneur, Jul 14»
2
Slavery on Screen: Scholars' Impressions and Interpretations
But there was something about witnessing the whipping from a visual angle that I had not imagined. You're watching from an angle where the whip is almost ... «University of Texas at Austin News, Feb 14»
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Falconcam reveals the secrets of mid-air raptor pursuit
“Raptors have incredibly fast visual processing abilities, measured at about 90 ... in which the predator keeps its prey at a fixed visual angle chosen to match the ... «Scientific American, Jan 14»
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Image Extend Your Ads : Google Introduces New Image Extensions
Obviously any company with a visual angle will benefit from this – however, for e-commerce websites this feature will not work as well as product listing ads, ... «WordStream, Jun 13»
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Visual illusion may explain the allure of pointillist paintings
Visual illusion may explain the allure of pointillist paintings ... the same width as the rings in Monnier and Shevell's study: about 0.15 degrees of visual angle. «ScienceBlogs, Feb 09»

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