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visual acuities

visual acuities is the plural of visual acuity.

Meaning of visual acuity

Noun

visual acuity (countable and uncountable, plural visual acuities)

  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.1899, “Progress of medicine”, in The Memphis Lancet, page 216
  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.1896, Annales d'Oculistique, English edition, page 307

Questions about visual acuities

What is visual acuities the plural of?
Visual acuities is the plural of visual acuity.

Words near visual acuities in the dictionary

  1. Vistulanian
  2. Vistulanians
  3. Vistulans
  4. visu-
  5. visual
  6. visual acuities
  7. visual acuity
  8. visual aid
  9. visual aids
  10. visual angle
  11. visual angles

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