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vis·ual field
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visual field, field of vision, field of regardnoun
all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment
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visual field
The visual field is the full extent of the area that can be seen when the gaze is fixed in a particular direction. This includes the viewer's central and peripheral (side) vision. It is the total area in which objects can be seen in the peripheral vision while the eye is focused on a central point.
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Visual field
The term visual field is sometimes used as a synonym to field of view, though they do not designate the same thing. The visual field is the "spatial array of visual sensations available to observation in introspectionist psychological experiments", while 'field of view' "refers to the physical objects and light sources in the external world that impinge the retina". In other words, field of view is everything that causes light to fall onto the retina. This input is processed by the visual system, which computes the visual field as the output. The term is often used in optometry and ophthalmology, where a visual field test is used to determine whether the visual field is affected by diseases that cause local scotoma or a more extensive loss of vision or a reduction in sensitivity.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of visual field in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of visual field in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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In 1804, Troxler made the discovery that rigidly fixating one’s gaze on some element in the visual field can cause surrounding stationary images to seem to slowly disappear or fade, they are replaced with an experience, the nature of which is determined by the background that the object is on.
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