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

His opinion, in short, is this; we judge not of the magnitude of an object by the visual angle alone, but by the visual angle in conjunction with the distance.

From A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision by Berkeley, George

In order to compensate for the variation in visual angle, there must be a series of rectangles increasing considerably in height toward the top.

From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Luckiesh, Matthew

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)