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Visual field   /vˈɪʒəwəl fild/   Listen
Visual field

noun
1.
All of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment.  Synonyms: field of regard, field of vision.






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"Visual field" Quotes from Famous Books



... be situated in infinite space. (A spatial point is an argument-place.) A speck in the visual field, thought it need not be red, must have some colour: it is, so to speak, surrounded by colour-space. Notes must have some pitch, objects of the sense of touch some degree of hardness, and ...
— Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus • Ludwig Wittgenstein

... came, into visual, auditory, gustatory, tactile, kinaesthetic, and so on. In many discussions of imagery the term "picture" has been used to describe it, and hence in the thought of many it is limited rather definitely to the visual field. Of course this is entirely wrong. The recall of a melody, or of the touch of velvet, or of the fragrance of a rose, is just as much mental imagery as the recall of the ...
— How to Teach • George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy

... made. Look through a pin-hole in a card at a uniform white surface as the white shade of an ordinary reading-lamp. With the right eye look through the pin-hole, the left eye being closed. Note the size of the (slightly dull) circular visual field. Open the left eye, the field becomes brighter and smaller (contraction of pupil); close the left eye, after an appreciable time, the field (now slightly dull) is seen gradually to expand. One can thus see and observe the rate of movements of ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

... gustatory, tactile, kinaesthetic, and so on. In many discussions of imagery the term "picture" has been used to describe it, and hence in the thought of many it is limited rather definitely to the visual field. Of course this is entirely wrong. The recall of a melody, or of the touch of velvet, or of the fragrance of a rose, is just as much mental imagery as the recall of the sight of ...
— How to Teach • George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy

... of Field.—The ideal visual field would be large and, above all, flat; in other words, objects at the periphery of the field would be as distinctly "in focus" as those in the centre. Unfortunately, however, this is an optical impossibility and the field is always spherical in shape. Some makers succeed in giving a larger central ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre



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