: a chart read at a fixed distance for purposes of testing sight
especially: one with rows of letters or objects of decreasing size
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebBut Moscot, which has been in business for more than 100 years, didn’t have an optometrist on-site on Sundays, so Mr. Grint, 33, improvised his own test, standing about 20 feet away from an eye chart at the back of the store.New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022 Whichever, Shula’s reaction in that news conference was essentially an eye chart: #@%!%! Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2021 After receiving the treatment, their ability to read letters on the eye chart significantly improved. Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020 Like most festival posters, the lineup for this year’s Mala Luna Music Festival looks something like an ophthalmologist’s eye chart. Polly Anna Rocha, ExpressNews.com, 23 Oct. 2019 The hospital trains its own vision screeners, most of them young women; a separate program trains primary schoolteachers to test their students’ sight using eye charts. Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 5 May 2018 In November, a month after her ER visit, Zara could read an eye chart. Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018 VISTA Senior center to hold free eye screenings The Gloria McClellan Senior Center at 1400 Vale Terrace Drive is offering free eyeglass cleanings, adjustments/maintenance and eye screenings with an eye chart from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Linda Mcintosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Jan. 2018 See More
Word History
First Known Use
1885, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
eye chart
noun
: a chart that is read at a fixed distance for purposes of testing sight
especially: one with rows of letters or objects of decreasing size