visual acuity
visual acuity noun: the sharpness of vision or sight.
Noun
visual acuity (countable and uncountable, plural visual acuities)
- 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
- 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
visual acuity meaning in Tamil and Urdu
visual acuity in Tamil
- பார்வைக்கூர்மை, பார்வை நுட்பம், பார்வை நுண்மை
visual acuity in Urdu
- تیز نظری
Forms of visual acuity
| plural | visual acuities |
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Origin of visual acuity
From visual + acuity.
Questions about visual acuity
- What does visual acuity mean?
- Visual acuity means the sharpness of vision or sight.
- What is visual acuity in Tamil?
- Visual acuity in Tamil is பார்வைக்கூர்மை, பார்வை நுட்பம், பார்வை நுண்மை. See Visual acuity meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is visual acuity?
- Visual acuity is a noun.
- What is the plural of visual acuity?
- The plural of visual acuity is visual acuities.
Words near visual acuity in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: visual acuity (page history and authors); visual acuity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); visual acuity (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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