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Definition of Field of view
1. Noun. The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument).
Generic synonyms: Visual Image, Visual Percept
Specialized synonyms: Microscopic Field, Operative Field
Definition of Field of view
1. Noun. (optics) The angular extent of what can be seen, either with the eye or with an optical instrument or camera. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Field of view
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Of View
Literary usage of Field of view
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses: A Text-book of Geometrical Optics by James Powell Cocke Southall (1918)
"Field of View.—The open or visible space commanded by the eye is called the ...
Since the eye can turn in its socket, the field of view of the mobile eye is ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1906)
"Field of View. — The field of view is the angular space that can be seen at one
time through the telescope. It is the angle subtended at the optical center ..."
3. The Microscope: Excerpts from The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1856)
"To perceive the general outline, it is necessary that the entire object should
be included at once within the field of view, and this could not be the case, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... the prism P4 is cemented to Pi, a sharp image of such lines of the sotar
spectrograph as are visible in the field of view will be seen in the eyepiece. ..."
5. Transactions by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1830)
"The first is a distortion of the object If, after examining an object in the
center of the field of view, we bring it to the outside, we shall frequently ..."
6. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"Field of View. — The field of view decreases with the magnifying power. Roughly,
the reciprocal of the magnifying power in diameters, multiplied by five, ..."
7. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"Measurement of the Field of View.—By an application of the measure of enlargement,
the comparative values of the fields of view of different oculars may be ..."
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