peripheral vision

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   vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina

   Broadersight

Questions about peripheral vision

What does peripheral vision mean?

peripheral vision means "vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina".

Is peripheral vision a common word?

peripheral 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.