FIELD OF VIEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field of view mean? 

• FIELD OF VIEW (noun)
  The noun FIELD OF VIEW has 1 sense:

1. the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

  Familiarity information: FIELD OF VIEW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD OF VIEW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

field; field of view

Hypernyms ("field of view" is a kind of...):

visual image; visual percept (a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "field of view"):

microscopic field (the areas that is visible through a microscope)

operative field (the area that is open during surgery)

 Context examples 

An artifact that occurs when tissues outside the field of view (FOV) get added to the opposite side of the image.

(Phase Wraparound Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)

Upcoming images will offer even more information, as the comet is quickly covering more space in OSIRIS' field of view.

(Rosetta closing in on comet, NASA)

The field of view for this imagery is about five Earths wide and about seven-and-a-half Earths tall.

(Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material, NASA)

A characteristic artifact (ghost) which is shifted with respect to the main image by a half-field of view, resulting from a mismatch in either the amplitude or phase between odd and even echoes.

(Half Field-of-view Ghost Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)

After the fix, Kepler started its K2 mission, which has provided an ecliptic field of view with greater opportunities for Earth-based observatories in both the northern and southern hemispheres.

(Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission, NASA)

JunoCam is a color, visible-light camera which offers a wide-angle field of view designed to capture remarkable pictures of Jupiter's poles and cloud tops.

(NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains, NASA)

An artifact that occurs when the scanned body part is larger than field of view (FOV) such that portions of the object outside of the desired FOV get mapped to an incorrect location inside the FOV.

(Aliasing Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)