Definition of Field of vision

1. Noun. All of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment.

Exact synonyms: Field Of Regard, Visual Field
Generic synonyms: Visual Image, Visual Percept

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Of Vision

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field mushroom
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field of battle
field of consciousness
field of fire
field of fixation
field of force
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field of operation
field of operations
field of regard
field of study
field of view
field of vision (current term)
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Literary usage of Field of vision

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"When the subject is in a tranquil somnambulistic state, the field of vision varies least in extension but it can become irregular if the subject does not ..."

2. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1907)
"... paralysis of one or more of the muscles, or from an overaction in some of the muscles as contrasted with their antagon; The Binocular Field of Vision. ..."

3. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1902)
"We speak of such objects as seen directly, of all others, which lie in the eccentric parts of the field of vision, as seen indirectly. ..."

4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"Our perception of an object, such as a flower, is not the same when we look at it as a part of a landscape, making use of the whole field of vision, ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"nevertheless advantageous to determine what relation exists between the extent of the field of vision at various distances in a series of measurements made ..."

6. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"Taking first of all the general features of the field of vision, we find psychical processes entering largely even into these. As we have incidentally seen, ..."

7. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs, Alexander Duane (1899)
"Extent of the Field of Vision.—The normal field of vision, as a glu nrt; at the appended ... The field of vision is much less extensive in other directions, ..."

8. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1887)
"... IRREGULARITIES IN THE field of vision. BY GE DE SCHWEINITZ, MD IN the JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE for January, 1886, Dr. EG Seguin contributed ..."

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