the whole extent of the image falling on the retina when the eye is fixating a given point in space
Examples of 'visual field' in a sentence
visual field
The computer placed a picture in Danlo's visual field, a many-hued simulation of an Architect man dying of the plague.
Zindell, David THE BROKEN GOD
An optometrist will test visual fields using a visual field screener or autoperimeter.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
We attend, he suggests, to one 'sensory individual' in such cases because surface and object both occupy the same portion of the visual field.
The Times Literary Supplement (2016)
In fact, resolution blurs as soon as you move away from the centre of the visual field.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He would then present it in a part of the visual field that meant the informationended up in the right hemisphere.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
For some people a quarter of their visual field might be 'wiped out', according to scientists, who advise against wearing the specs while driving.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
I think it was partly because my visual field was so full, or empty, whichever way you want to look at it.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Colour and form merge in a giddying visual field in a show of sinuous works by the great op artist.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Now, while still looking at your thumbnail, try to get a sense of what else is in going on in your visual field.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
An easily understood definition of glaucoma would be 'optic-nerve damage associated with visual-field loss, which, if untreated, may lead to blindness'.