sharpness

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Editorial note

Counter intuitive as it may seem, sharpness is not always your friend.

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Quick take

a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sharpness gathered in one view.

noun

a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind"

noun

the attribute of urgency in tone of voice; "his voice had an edge to it"

noun

a strong odor or taste property; "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"; "the raciness of the wine"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sharpness.

noun

a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind"

noun

the attribute of urgency in tone of voice; "his voice had an edge to it"

noun

a strong odor or taste property; "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"; "the raciness of the wine"

noun

the quality of being keenly and painfully felt; "the sharpness of her loss"

noun

thinness of edge or fineness of point

noun

the quality of being sharp and clear

noun

harshness of manner

Example sentences

Counter intuitive as it may seem, sharpness is not always your friend.

If you want sharpness, high contrast and resolution.

Matte screens are bad for reading code, because they create a layer of gritiness that reduces the sharpness of text.

You're throwing a lot out in order to get things sharper at small sizes, and for many people, that matters far more than perceived sharpness.

You could be lax about button colors matching exactly, or per-pixel sharpness on the map and buttons.

Once the 'circle of confusion' or airy disc exceeds the size of a single pixel on the sensor, you begin to lose lens sharpness.

You will see someone who takes the utmost pride in their hunting skill, their ability to track animals, the sharpness of their spear, etc etc.

A separate question is daily accuracy, or what might be called "sharpness".One way to measure accuracy is to use a "scoring rule" each day.

... and, happily, the accumulation of wisdom to direct the remaining sharpness ...

I am a very happy nexus 4 owner but the camera was obviously sub par; slow focus, dull colors and lack of sharpness were major problems.

By doing this they get a lot of the benefits of vector icons without sacrificing sharpness and it'd be fantastic to see a more general purpose icon font that took a similar approach.

For example, the reason screen glass often isn't replaceable is because it's optically bonded to the underlying LCD, which improves sharpness, reduces glare, and reduces parallax when using a pen.

He operates beyond conventional morality because the sharpness of his judgement and the greatness of his philosophical insights far exceeds the value of the slave morality embodied by everyday law, and morals.

So taking the image and increasing the rate of change between high to low or low to high 'sharpens' it, similarly if you are rendering an image and you have choices about the function which determines which pixel represents which part of the rendered image, you can do several renders with pixel offsets and maximize harmonics for maximum sharpness.