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Перевод: acuity

[существительное]
острота ; острота зрения; острый характер

Тезаурус:

1. Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom, his stunning turns-of-phrase, his aphoristic acuity, so Leonard was learning his own, parallel metier; the butterfly was following him down the hill.
2. In addition, loss of acuity of the senses - particularly impaired sight and hearing - will reduce an elderly person's awareness of danger, for example when crossing roads or when cooking in the kitchen.
3. In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that "it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary."
4. acuity of the senses
5. Elderly people become more prone to falls often because of arthritic joints or dizziness, are vulnerable to pedestrian accidents perhaps due to lessened acuity in sight and hearing and at risk to the hazards of fire.
6. If point loads are used, one per side, then each side tends to become hyperbolic, its acuity dependent on the elasticity of edges.
7. However, for maintaining a safe environment, acuity in all of the five senses is obviously important because external safety hazards are identified by means of vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
8. The doubters had failed to take into account Alcock's remarkable visual acuity, but photographs taken at professional observatories, and by space probes, have verified the details of his observations.
9. Now it is frequently said that the development of skilled movement "lags" a long way behind that of skilled perception, and in one sense this is certainly true: young babies have excellent visual acuity as revealed by their behavioural discrimination of, and neural responsivity, to gratings and chequerboards - but we don't see them playing darts!
10. Here, visual acuity is not so sharp, nor is our ability to judge distances so good.
11. The process of ageing, which involves a gradual deterioration of physical and intellectual ability and loss of acuity of the senses, inevitably results in lessened ability to carry out the many activities involved in the AL of maintaining a safe environment.
12. The North American Indians had a name for trilobites that meant "little water bug in the rocks", which shows extraordinary zoological acuity.
13. This foveal acuity can be of high definition, to be beamed like a searchlight on any tiny part of the surrounding, peripheral environment.