The image P' of a distant object P falls in front of the retina even without accommodation.
The eye, therefore, can form a distinct image of a near or distant object, but not of both at the same time; hence the necessity for accommodation.
Hold a thin wooden rod or pencil about a foot from the eyes and look at a distant object.
If asked, How it is that we hear a voice at a distance, or see a distant object?
Defn: A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
Upon approaching a distant object, do the visible size and figure change perpetually, or do they appear the same at all distances?
In connexion with this and the next illustration, Berkeley seems to argue that we are not only unable to see distance in the line of sight, but also that we do not see a distant object in its real visible magnitude.
So again when a person on a bright, glaring day wishes to look at a distant object, but is compelled partially to close his eyelids, the upper lip may almost always be observed to be somewhat raised.
A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
The process is like looking at a distant object through a field-glass.
I have hinted that these recovered sensations include the feelings we experience in connection with muscular activity, as in moving our limbs, resisting or lifting heavy bodies, and walking to a distant object.
The measurement from the back surface of the lens to the screen, when focussed on a distant object, is called the "back focus," but this is of no use whatever except as to the determining of the camera length necessary.
The aperture of any lens can be measured by focussing a distant object, then replacing the focussing screen by a sheet of cardboard with a pinhole in the middle of it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distant object" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
