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From Middle English vysual, from Old French, from Late Latin visualis (“of sight”), from Latin visus (“sight”), from videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see visage.
visual (comparative more visual, superlative most visual)
- Related to or affecting the vision.
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close […] above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
- (obsolete) That can be seen; visible.
- audiovisual
- nonvisual
- visual acuity
- visual aid
- visual angle
- visual art
- visual artist
- visual arts
- visual axis
- visual binary
- visual cortex
- visual diary
- visual display unit
- visual field
- visualization
- visualize
- visual kei
- visual language
- visually
- visual magnitude
- visual merchandising
- visual novel
- visual poem
- visual poetry
- visual pollution
- visual presenter
- visual programming language
- visual proximity
- visual pun
- visual purple
- visual rhyme
- visual servoing
- visual snow
- visual space
- visual streak
- visual text
- visual voicemail
- visual white
- visual yellow
- VLOS
visual (plural visuals)
- Any element of something that depends on sight.
2016, S. C. Sterling, Teenage Degenerate, page 5:
It wasn't the first time I pulled an all-nighter, but normally I was coming off an acid trip and still seeing visuals dancing around in my head.
- An image; a picture; a graphic.
- (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
- (advertising) A preliminary sketch.
- (marching band) Any element of a show done by a marching band besides the marching and playing of instruments.
The visual where the trombone all threw their instruments into the air looked good.
- “visual”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “visual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.
Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.
- IPA(key): (Central) [bi.zuˈal]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [vi.zuˈal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Hyphenation: vi‧su‧al
visual m or f (masculine and feminine plural visuals)
- “visual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “visual”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “visual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “visual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.
visual m or f (plural visuais)
- “visual”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
- “visual” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
From Late Latin visualis (“of sight”), from Latin visus (“sight”).
visual
- visual
- related to or affecting the vision.
- that can be seen; visible.
- memvisualkan (“to visualise”)
- pemvisualan (“visualisation”)
- “visual” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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visual m (feminine singular visuala, masculine plural visuals, feminine plural visualas)
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 737.
visual f (plural visuaj)
visual
Learned borrowing from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.
visual m or f (plural visuais)
visual m (plural visuais)
- “visual” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.
visual m or f (masculine and feminine plural visuales)
- “visual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014