How to Use visual acuity in a Sentence

visual acuity

noun

• Instead, Shane’s visual acuity will take the lead here.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2022
• The same thing was true for the loss of visual acuity that comes with age, confirmed by comparing mice at three months of age to those roughly a year old.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2020
• Moonlight even sharpens the visual acuity of horseshoe crabs, which come ashore on certain nights to mate.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
• State law requires first-time applicants to undergo tests on rules of the road, road signs and visual acuity, plus a road test.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 16 May 2018
• The fovea, a tiny depression at the center of the retina where visual acuity is highest, does all the heavy lifting while the rest of your vision goes unused.
  — Sonya Collins, Fortune, 6 May 2022
• Of course, visual acuity doesn’t tell the whole story of animal vision.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2018
• Eye pressure and visual acuity are checked, then the optometrist examines them.
  — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2017
• Their visual acuity provides a tour attuned to shape, color and pattern.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2020
• That’s a function of the visual acuity of an ordinary eye with 20-20 vision, Bathiche said, at some arbitrary distance—in this case, at about a foot from the display.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 15 May 2020
• After testing it was found that visual acuity was improved after eating the dark chocolate when compared to the milk.
  — Sheah Rarback, miamiherald, 11 May 2018
• By this stage, the animals had visual acuity scores about 15% lower than their 5-month-old counterparts.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
• Four were found to have eye pain, sensitivity to light, loss of visual acuity and uveitis up to 10 weeks after infection.
  — Seema Yasmin, Scientific American, 29 Feb. 2016
• But another person in the trial lost visual acuity as a result of the therapy.
  — Julia Belluz, Vox, 22 Mar. 2018
• The visual acuity that urchins showed in the tank experiments was within the range that scientists estimated from the tube-foot model.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2018
• Macular degeneration of the retina results in a loss of visual acuity and field of view.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 16 May 2018
• The central focus wheel focuses both eyes at once, and a diopter focuses the right eye, which helps to provide better visual acuity between both eyes.
  — Alec Scherma, Good Housekeeping, 24 Oct. 2022
• Leonardo’s visual acuity was driven by his abiding faith in nature’s design, whether a tree root or a hippopotamus.
  — Claudia Kalb, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• While no one in the study has fully regained sight, quite a few of them, like Macdonald, have experienced improvements in their visual acuity.
  — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
• The visual acuity of the astronauts flying such a mission would be critical at many key phases of the flight — including rendezvous, docking, landing, and launch.
  — Doug Adler, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2020
• The accompanying visual acuity guards against attack from the squids’ most infamous predator, the sperm whale, which the squid can spot from almost 400 feet away—a distance long enough to qualify as a par-three golf hole.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 21 June 2018
• That’s the kind of visual acuity that has always made Shyamalan a far better filmmaker than his reputation suggests.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 July 2021
• The disease damages the central vision first before impacting overall visual acuity and field of vision.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
• These measurements with 70 micron pixels confirmed our hopes that prosthetic visual acuity is limited by the pixel pitch [or the distance from the center of one pixel to the center of the next pixel].
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
• Their visual acuity remained below normal, even after months of training.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
• An additional wrinkle here is that Oakley's Prizm visor, which is designed to increase a player's visual acuity and features a light lavender tint, will now be permitted on the field.
  — Paul Lukas, SI.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Ski mountaineers need visual acuity on dangerous descents, and ski racers hitting over 90 mph must be able to react to course variations in milliseconds.
  — Brigid Mander, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• Four weeks later, the animals’ visual acuity had declined by about 25%, as measured by a vision test in which mice move their heads to track the movement of vertical bars displayed on computer monitors.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
• Autonomous cars are excellent at detecting and avoiding obstacles and have stronger visual acuity than the human eye on bad roads.
  — Cindy Gordon, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• In studies, more than 90 percent of participants reported that their visual acuity was maintained or improved a year later.
  — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2019
• Then again, my senses are heightened, my visual acuity second to none, and my current rate of inflated self-importance frankly unsustainable.
  — Kimberly Harrington, The Cut, 1 June 2018

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024