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Visual angle

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Main Entry: visual angle
Function: noun
: the angle formed by two rays of light or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of a viewed object to the nodal pointof the eye
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visual angle n.
The angle formed at the retina by the meeting of lines drawn from the periphery of the viewed object.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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