central vision

1. 1.

   vision using the fovea and parafovea; the middle part of the visual field

   Broadersight

Questions about central vision

What does central vision mean?

central vision means "vision using the fovea and parafovea; the middle part of the visual field".

Is central vision a common word?

central vision is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.