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Record 1 2000-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Eye
DEF

Visual acuity based on the ability to detect the alignment or the nonalignment of two lines, as in the reading of a vernier scale.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeil
DEF

Capacité à discerner le plus petit écart perceptible entre deux lignes verticales ou horizontales, comme cela se fait pour la lecture d'un vernier.

OBS

C'est l'acuité la plus fine qui soit [...] et elle est d'autant plus élevée que les lignes sont longues.

OBS

Source MVISI-F : Le nouveau dictionnaire de la vision par Michel Millodot, Médiacom Vision Éditeur, 1997.

Spanish

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