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vi⋅sion
[vizh-uh
n] 
–noun
| 1. | the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight. |
| 2. | the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur. |
| 3. | an experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the influence of a divine or other agency: a heavenly messenger appearing in a vision. Compare hallucination (def. 1). |
| 4. | something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message. |
| 5. | a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory. |
| 6. | something seen; an object of sight. |
| 7. | a scene, person, etc., of extraordinary beauty: The sky was a vision of red and pink. |
| 8. | computer vision. |
–verb (used with object)
| 9. | to envision: She tried to vision herself in a past century. |
computer vision
–noun
| 1. | a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc. |
| 2. | a similar system for the blind that converts optical information into tactile signals. |
Also called machine vision, vision.
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| vi·sion (vĭzh'ən) n.
To see in or as if in a vision; envision. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vīsiō, vīsiōn-, from vīsus, past participle of vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.] vi'sion·al adj., vi'sion·al·ly adv. |
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Vision
Vi"sion\, n. [OE. visioun, F. vision, fr. L. visio, from videre, visum, to see: akin to Gr. ? to see, ? I know, and E. wit. See Wit, v., and cf. Advice, Clairvoyant, Envy, Evident, Provide, Revise, Survey, View, Visage, Visit.]1. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight. Faith here is turned into vision there. --Hammond. 2. (Physiol.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve. 3. That which is seen; an object of sight. --Shak. 4. Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah. The baseless fabric of this vision. --Shak. No dreams, but visions strange. --Sir P. Sidney. 5. Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy. --Locke. Arc of vision (Astron.), the arc which measures the least distance from the sun at which, when the sun is below the horizon, a star or planet emerging from his rays becomes visible. Beatific vision (Theol.), the immediate sight of God in heaven. Direct vision (Opt.), vision when the image of the object falls directly on the yellow spot (see under Yellow); also, vision by means of rays which are not deviated from their original direction. Field of vision, field of view. See under Field. Indirect vision (Opt.), vision when the rays of light from an object fall upon the peripheral parts of the retina. Reflected vision, or Refracted vision, vision by rays reflected from mirrors, or refracted by lenses or prisms, respectively. Vision purple. (Physiol.) See Visual purple, under Visual.
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Language Translation for : vision
Spanish:
visión,
German:
die Vision,
Japanese:
幻想
vision
c.1290, "something seen in the imagination or in the supernatural," from Anglo-Fr. visioun, O.Fr. vision, from L. visionem (nom. visio) "act of seeing, sight, thing seen," from pp. stem of videre "to see," from PIE base *weid- "to know, to see" (cf. Skt. veda "I know;" Avestan vaeda "I know;" Gk. oida, Doric woida "I know," idein "to see;" O.Ir. fis "vision," find "white," i.e. "clearly seen," fiuss "knowledge;" Welsh gwyn, Gaulish vindos, Breton gwenn "white;" Goth., O.Swed., O.E. witan "to know;" Goth. weitan "to see;" Eng. wise, Ger. wissen "to know;" Lith. vysti "to see;" Bulg. vidya "I see;" Pol. widziec' "to see," weidziec' "to know;" Rus. videt' "to see," vest' "news," O.Russ. vedat' "to know"). The meaning "sense of sight" is first recorded c.1491. Meaning "statesman-like foresight, political sagacity" is attested from 1926.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: vi·sion
Pronunciation: 'vizh-&n
Function: noun
1 : the act or power of seeing
2 : the special sense bywhich the qualities of an object (as color, luminosity, shape, and size) constituting its appearance are perceived and which is mediated by the eye
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vision vi·sion (vĭzh'ən)
n.
- The faculty of sight; eyesight.
- The manner in which an individual sees or conceives of something.
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Vision
(Luke 1:22), a vivid apparition, not a dream (comp. Luke 24:23; Acts 26:19; 2 Cor. 12:1).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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