self-paced

comparative more self-paced · superlative most self-paced

1. Designed to be completed at the doer’s own rate of progress and schedule.

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   It has been found experimentally, that persons of average vision are able to perform self-paced visual tasks requiring the perception of detail subtending an angle at the eye of one-sixth of a degree (10 minutes of arc) very efficiently under ordinary conditions of lighting, and provided the detail is in good contrast with adjacent parts of the object containing it.

   1962, Hubert Claude Weston, Sight, Light and Work, page 76