visual angle

visual angle
visual angle n the angle formed by two rays of light or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of a viewed object to the nodal point of the eye

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the angle formed between two lines extending from the nodal point of the eye to the extremities of the object seen; called also optic a.

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