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vis·u·al 
[vizh-oo-uhl] Pronunciation Key
[vizh-oo-uhl] Pronunciation Key –adjective
–noun
| 1. | of or pertaining to seeing or sight: a visual image. |
| 2. | used in seeing: the visual sense. |
| 3. | optical. |
| 4. | perceptible by the sense of sight; visible: a visual beauty. |
| 5. | perceptible by the mind; of the nature of a mental vision: a visual impression captured in a line of verse. |
| 6. | Usually, visuals.
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| 7. | a rough, preliminary sketch of an advertising layout, showing possible arrangements of material. Compare comprehensive (def. 5). |
| 8. | any item or element depending on the sense of sight. |
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME < LL vīsuālis, equiv. to vīsu(s) sight (vid(ére) to see + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > s) + -ālis -al1]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| vi·su·al
(vĭzh'ōō-əl) Pronunciation Key
adj.
n. A picture, chart, or other presentation that appeals to the sense of sight, used in promotion or for illustration or narration. Often used in the plural: an ad campaign with striking visuals; trying to capture a poem in a cinematic visual. [Middle English, from Late Latin vīsuālis, from Latin vīsus, sight, from past participle of vidēre, to see; see vision.] vi'su·al·ly adv., vi'su·al·ness, vi'su·al'i·ty (-āl'ĭ-tē) n. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
visual (adj.)
visual (adj.)
1412, "coming from the eye or sight" (as a beam of light), from L.L. visualis "of sight," from L. visus "sight," from visus, pp. of videre "to see" (see vision). Meaning "relating to vision" is first attested 1603. The noun meaning "photographic film or other visual display" is first recorded 1951. Visualize (1817) is first attested in, and perhaps was coined by, Coleridge.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| visual | |
adjective | |
| 1. | relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation" [syn: ocular] |
| 2. | visible; "be sure of it; give me the ocular proof"- Shakespeare; "a visual presentation"; "a visual image" [syn: ocular] |
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
visual vi·su·al (vĭzh'&oomacr;-əl)
adj.
- Of or relating to the sense of sight.
- Seen or able to be seen by the eye; visible.
- Optical.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Visual
Vis"u*al\, a. [L. visualis, from visus a seeing, sight: cf. F. visuel. See Vision.]1. Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve. The air, Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray. --Milton. 2. That can be seen; visible. [R.] Visual angle. (Opt.) See under Angle. Visual cone (Persp.), a cone whose vertex is at the point of sight, or the eye. Visual plane, any plane passing through the point of sight. Visual point, the point at which the visual rays unite; the position of the eye. Visual purple (Physiol.), a photochemical substance, of a purplish red color, contained in the retina of human eyes and in the eyes of most animals. It is quickly bleached by light, passing through the colors, red, orange, and yellow, and then disappearing. Also called rhodopsin, and vision purple. See Optography. Visual ray, a line from the eye, or point of sight. Visual white (Physiol.), the final product in the action of light on visual purple. It is reconverted into visual purple by the regenerating action of the choroidal epithelium. Visual yellow (Physiol.), a product intermediate between visual purple and visual white, formed in the photochemical action of light on visual purple.
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