eye chart
noun
: a chart read at a fixed distance for purposes of testing sight
especially
: one with rows of letters or objects of decreasing size
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To measure improvement in vision acuity—the clarity or sharpness of vision—researchers used a classic eye chart.
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Emily Mullin, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
Just prior to Aaron Rodgers’ Achilles procedure, his doctor walked across a lake to the hospital, healed some sick, raised some dead, had a blind man read an eye chart, and did things with loaves and fishes for the starving staff.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
Reading became difficult: the white of the page took on a wince-inducing glare, and the words frosted over, like the lowermost lines on the optometrist’s eye chart.
—Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
The doctor gave me the standard eye chart test, which showed nothing.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 7 May 2023
An eye chart of a name.
—cleveland, 3 Apr. 2022
The eye chart, man.
—Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 6 Oct. 2021
The goal is to show that a significant percentage of people gain three lines of improvement in near vision on an eye chart without losing one line of distance vision.
—Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
In a recent clinical trial on patients aged 75 and older, 90 percent of the 219 participants were able to read two lines or more on an eye chart, and 75 percent could read large-print books.
—Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2010
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Emily Mullin, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
Just prior to Aaron Rodgers’ Achilles procedure, his doctor walked across a lake to the hospital, healed some sick, raised some dead, had a blind man read an eye chart, and did things with loaves and fishes for the starving staff.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
Reading became difficult: the white of the page took on a wince-inducing glare, and the words frosted over, like the lowermost lines on the optometrist’s eye chart.
—Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
The doctor gave me the standard eye chart test, which showed nothing.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 7 May 2023
An eye chart of a name.
—cleveland, 3 Apr. 2022
The eye chart, man.
—Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 6 Oct. 2021
The goal is to show that a significant percentage of people gain three lines of improvement in near vision on an eye chart without losing one line of distance vision.
—Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
In a recent clinical trial on patients aged 75 and older, 90 percent of the 219 participants were able to read two lines or more on an eye chart, and 75 percent could read large-print books.
—Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2010
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“Eye chart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eye%20chart. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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