By eye

prep_phrase

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Prep_phrase
  1. 1
    By estimation, based on a visual inspection, without accurate measurement.

    "Thus given a straight line it is very easy to construct a smaller or a greater than it by eye, not just because this is a broad sort of distinction, but because it also involves only one comparison."

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"Thus given a straight line it is very easy to construct a smaller or a greater than it by eye, not just because this is a broad sort of distinction, but because it also involves only one comparison."