Contextualizebeta

visual acuity

noun

Etymology

Compound of visual + acuity.

  1. derived from acuō
  2. derived from acuitas
  3. derived from acuité
  4. inherited from acuite
  5. compounded as visual acuity — “visual + acuity”

Definitions

  1. The sharpness of vision or sight.

    • The Italian railroads require of their employes both eyes normal in regard to visual acuity, ocular refraction, perception of red and green, and visual field.

  2. Strength of vision expressed on some definite scale.

    • Myopia exceeding 6 D., provided the visual acuity exceed 1/4 for one of the eyes and 1/16 for the other, and there be no extended choroidal lesions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for visual acuity. 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