field
- noun
- /fiːld/
- Specialized
- In patients with open-angle glaucoma, latanoprost improved visual field preservation compared with placebo.
- field of view
- field of vision
- depth of field
And then when these, you know, DSLR came out with the shallow depth of field.
- And then when these, you know, DSLR came out with the shallow depth of field.
- And you want to tell me that in fact, there's a red apple that still exists even when I'm perceiving a Gray field?
- So in you're in your in your whole field of view, the the near field stuff typically happens in the lower half of your peripheral vision.
- But the field of view is significantly less.
- Learn to dilate and contract your visual field consciously.
Examples
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You'll see the mass in the left lower lung field, causing complete collapse in the lower left lobe.
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The captain turned around and raised the field glass to his eye.
Fiction book (1998) -
His eyes were so close to hers they filled the entire field of her vision.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm having trouble with my visual field.
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It's called the shallow depth of field and you need a longer lens to pull this off.
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Learn to dilate and contract your visual field consciously.
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Now he's caught in the man's field of vision, contemplating the crowd.
Fiction book (1992) -
The screen covered a visual field of approximately 240 degrees horizontally and 100 degrees vertically.
Academic text (2017) -
The free-floating needle of a compass is moved by the Earth's magnetic field to orient its bearer.
Fiction book (2000) -
Through the telescope, I could see a vast field of stars twinkling in the night sky.
Synonyms
The area you can see at one time, for example through a camera or telescope
The area you see through a microscope at one magnification
Idioms
Make the situation different so some people have a better chance to win
Compounds
- Specialized
An area around a magnet or electric current where a magnet's force moves objects
The part of the outfield on the left side in baseball and the player who plays there
- US
An area of grass or artificial grass marked for playing soccer with goalposts
A team sport played on grass where players use curved sticks to hit a small hard ball into a goal
- Specialized
A temporary hospital near a disaster or battlefield that treats injured people
- Specialized
The space around a planet or other object that pulls things toward it
- Specialized
The area you can see at one time, for example through a camera or telescope
- Specialized
An area around a charged object that pushes or pulls other small charged things
- Specialized
A measure of how strong an electric or magnetic field is at a place
- US
The part of the baseball outfield behind second base between left and right field
An area of land people prepare and keep for playing sports like soccer or track
- Specialized
A wire wrapped around a magnet that makes a magnetic field in motors and generators
- Specialized
An idea in physics that explains forces and particles as things spread through space and time, like gravity or electricity
- Specialized
Large mobile guns that armies use to fire at enemy positions to help front-line troops
- Specialized
A person in the army with the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
A competition on the field where athletes jump or throw, like long jump and shot put
- Jargon
A player who leads and directs the team's play on the field, often the quarterback
- Specialized
An imaginary line that shows the direction of the force around magnets or electric charges
Part of business that helps companies tell people about and sell products or services
- Specialized
A microscope that makes tiny particles too small for an ordinary microscope appear bright on a dark background
- Specialized
An area around electric charges that pushes or pulls other charges
A situation where everyone has an equal chance and no one has unfair advantages
- Specialized
A large movable weapon soldiers use on the battlefield to fire at enemy troops
- Specialized
Electrons leave a material's surface when a strong electric field pulls them into empty space
- Specialized
How strong and which way an electric or magnetic field is at a point
- Specialized
An area where soldiers fight and do military work during a war
How Wide
Surface Forms
Etymology
Field once meant the area you can walk across, so in optics a field is the area you can see through a lens — your visible 'open space' in the instrument.