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

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

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

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