FIELD OF VISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field of vision mean? 

• FIELD OF VISION (noun)
  The noun FIELD OF VISION has 1 sense:

1. all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment

  Familiarity information: FIELD OF VISION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD OF VISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

field of regard; field of vision; visual field

Hypernyms ("field of vision" is a kind of...):

visual image; visual percept (a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system)

 Context examples 

To the rest of the retina, it seems like everything in the field of vision is blue.

(New color vision pathway unveiled, NIH)

He looked outside, and half a dozen snow-birds fluttered across his field of vision.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His eyes were wide apart; nothing in their field of vision escaped; and as they drank in the beauty before them the fighting light died out and a warm glow took its place.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The pretty woman before him passed out of his field of vision.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Vision considered to be inferior to normal vision as represented by accepted standards of acuity, field of vision, or motility.

(Partial Sight, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Absence of crystalline lens totally or partially from field of vision, from any cause except after cataract extraction.

(Aphakia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Your field of vision may "white out" or "black out."

(Fainting, NIH)

They occupied nearly the whole circumference of his field of vision.

(White Fang, by Jack London)