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acutance

noun
/əˈkjuːt(ə)n(t)s/UK/əˈkjutn̩(t)s/US

Etymology

From acute (“intense, sensitive, sharp”, adjective) + -ance (suffix forming nouns indicating conditions or states).

  1. derived from acūta
  2. inherited from acute
  3. formed as acutance — “acute + -ance”

Definitions

  1. Edge contrast or sharpness in an image

    Edge contrast or sharpness in an image; also, a measure of this.

  2. An instance of the edge contrast or sharpness in an image.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for acutance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA