Monday, September 16, 2024

Word of the Day: Acutance

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Monday, September 16, 2024
Acutance
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noun 1. The sharpness of a photographic or printed image.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES
Play Button "I prefer to use my manual camera so I can adjust the acutance by hand."
Play Button "The evening shadows will create an interesting level of acutance in these photos."
Play Button "Although the acutance is high, these files are very small, so the images might still be blurry."
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English, mid-20th century
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Why This Word?
The adjective "acute" has multiple usages: describing something experienced to an intense degree, or describing a highly developed insight, a sharp point, or an angle less than 90 degrees. It makes sense, then, that "acute" was borrowed by photographers in the mid-20th century to describe the sharpness of an image. ...
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