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MINIMUM SEPARABLE ANGLE [1 record]

Record 1 2000-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Eye
DEF

The smallest angle of separation at which the eye recognizes two points, lines, or objects as being separate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeil
DEF

Angle d'incidence pour lequel un rayon lumineux passant dans un milieu moins réfringent est réfracté entre les deux milieux avec un angle de réfraction égal à 90º.

OBS

Source MVISIF : Le Nouveau Dictionnaire de la vision par Michel Millodot, Paris, Médiacon Vision, 1997).

Spanish

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