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Examples of field of vision in a Sentence
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According to this explanation, the sequential nature of the flashes creates a sense of the flashes being a single object moving across a participant’s field of vision.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 27 June 2024
Whereas each human eye can supply a roughly 130-degree field of vision, and both eyes working together can provide a nearly 180-degree field of vision when looking forward, the new device can display images only over a roughly 12-degree arc in front of the viewer.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2024
The size of the field of vision depends on the size of your phone, but all users will have an immersive 360-degree experience.
—Lauren Wellbank, Parents, 8 May 2024
In the rare case that someone does damage their eyes, that damage usually shows up as a blurry spot in the field of vision, hours or up to a day after watching the eclipse.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 8 Apr. 2024
What Causes Dry Eye? What Are Eye Floaters? Eye floaters are basically specks that float around in your field of vision.
—Cassie Shortsleeve, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
However, these specks in the field of vision, which may appear as cobwebs, spots, squiggly lines, or threads, can sometimes be caused by other severe eye conditions, such as retinal detachment, uveitis, or vitreous detachment.
—Cassie Shortsleeve, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
The otherworldly signal may have been a message just for Saul’s companion, a nanomaterials researcher named Auggie Salazar (Eiza González) who’s had a glowing countdown emblazoned across her field of vision for days.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
Every second, a new person in my field of vision, which is not a private field, but is instead a public park.
—Devin Kelly, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1862, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near field of vision
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“Field of vision.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/field%20of%20vision. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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