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FOV

FOV is the initialism of field of view.

FOV is the initialism of field of vision.

Meaning of field of view

Noun

field of view (plural fields of view)

  1. The angular extent of what can be seen, either with the eye or with an optical instrument or camera.

Meaning of field of vision

Noun

field of vision (plural fields of vision)

  1. The area that a person, an animal, etc. can see with its eyes (or each eye individually) without turning the head.
    • But when there is no Danger to our Eyes, either from Duſt or Light, we pull up our Eye-brows, that none of the Light may be ſtopt, but that all of it may fall upon our Eyes; by which the Sight or Field of Viſion is enlarged, and all the Objects above the Axis of Viſion are now ſeen: [...]1759, William Porterfield, “Of the Supercilia or Eye-brows”, in A Treatise on the Eye, the Manner and Phænomena of Vision. In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed for A. Miller [i.e., Andrew...

Forms of FOV

pluralFOVs

Questions about FOV

What is FOV the initialism of?
FOV is the initialism of field of view.

Words near FOV in the dictionary

  1. fouty
  2. Foutys
  3. Foutz
  4. Foutzes
  5. Fouzia
  6. FOV
  7. fovea
  8. fovea centralis
  9. foveae
  10. foveal
  11. foveal avascular zone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: FOV (page history and authors); field of view (page history and authors); field of vision (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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