Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

emmert's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: em-mert's law
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A law stating that objects that generate retinal images of the same size will look different in physical size (linear size) if they appear to be located at different distances.

Etymology

Named after Emil Emmert (1844–1911), who first described it in 1881.

Questions

What does emmert's law mean?: A law stating that objects that generate retinal images of the same size will look different in physical size (linear size) if they appear to be located at different distances.
Where does emmert's law come from?: Named after Emil Emmert (1844–1911), who first described it in 1881.

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