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Visual field

noun

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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... 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

... 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

Words linked to "Visual field" : visual percept, visual image