line of vision

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line of vision

(Medicine) Ophthalmol a straight line extending from the fovea centralis of the eye to an object on which the eye is focused Also called line of sight

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line of vision - an imaginary straight line along which an observer looks

line of sight

line - a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent

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We must have been struck squarely amidships, for I saw nothing, the strange steamboat having passed beyond my line of vision.

The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context

There was no one in sight to the left over a considerable expanse of roof-top, and to the right another building shut off his line of vision at about twenty feet.

Out of Time's Abyss by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

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