Visual
['vɪʒjʊəl;-zj-] or ['vɪʒʊəl]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve.
(a.) That can be seen; visible.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Optic, optical, of the eye, of the sight or vision.
Edited by Gene
Definition
adj. belonging to vision or sight: visible: produced by sight: used in sight: used for seeing.—n. Visualisā′tion.—v.t. Vis′ualīse to make visible or visual externalise to the eye.—v.i. to call up a clear mental image.—ns. Vis′ualīser; Visual′ity.—adv. Vis′ually.
Edited by Bernice
Examples
- Edison’s record was not for visual inspection, but was endowed with the mechanical function of reproducing sound. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Many cases are on record where the mental life is a lmost exclusively in visual, in auditory, or in motor terms. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- On the other hand, Galton, after his classical study of mental imagery (1883), stated that scientific men, as a class, have feeble powers of visual representat ion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All records had been heretofore traced for visual inspection only. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual--we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A visual image, or mental picture, is popularly taken as characteristic of the imaginative process. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Professor Dilth ey has collected many other records of the hallucinatory clearness of the visual imagery of literary artists. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He had appealed for evidence of visual recall to distinguished scientists because he thought them more capable than others of accurately stating the results of their introspection. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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