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self-paced

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English

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Etymology

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From self- +‎ paced.

Adjective

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self-paced (comparative more self-paced, superlative most self-paced)

  1. Of an action or task, designed to be completed at the learner's own rate of progress and schedule.
    • 1962, Hubert Claude Weston, Sight, Light and Work, page 76:
      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.