field of view

noun phrase

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Dashcam footage from a vehicle driving east on the highway showed a few cars begin to brake as the helicopter entered their field of view and fell toward the freeway. Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025 Oakley Meta Vanguard combines Oakley’s Prizm lenses with a 12MP ultra-wide camera (122° field of view), high decibel open-ear speakers, and advanced wind noise reduction. Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025 The new cameras process twice as many frames per second, reduce delays by 25 percent, and expand the field of view by 60 percent. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025 This is thanks to the super-wide field of view provided by the Celestron Cometron 7x50. Harry Bennett, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for field of view

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First Known Use

1763, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of field of view was in 1763

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“Field of view.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/field%20of%20view. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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