1. the tendency to perceive the veridical size of a familiar object despite differences in their distance (and consequent differences in the size of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye);
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
size constancy
n 1: the tendency to perceive the veridical size of a familiar
object despite differences in their distance (and
consequent differences in the size of the pattern projected
on the retina of the eye)