'Visual' definitions:
Definition of 'visual'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Visual'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The air, Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That can be seen; visible. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'visual'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apparent,
- beholdable,
- detectable,
- discernible,
- disclosed,
- evident,
- exposed,
- exposed to view,
- eyeball,
- hanging out,
- in evidence,
- in full view,
- in plain sight,
- in view,
- insight,
- manifest,
- naked,
- noticeable,
- observable,
- ocular,
- open,
- open to view,
- ophthalmic,
- optic,
- optical,
- outcropping,
- perceivable,
- perceptible,
- recognizable,
- revealed,
- seeable,
- seeing,
- showing,
- to be seen,
- unclouded,
- unconcealed,
- undisguised,
- unhidden,
- viewable,
- visible,
- visional,
- witnessable
Words containing 'Visual'
- Visualize,
- Visualizer,
- visualization,
- visualized,
- visually,
- Visual angle,
- Visual cone,
- Visual plane,
- Visual point,
- Visual purple,
- Visual ray,
- Visual white,
- Visual yellow,
- visual acuity,
- visual agnosia,
- visual aphasia,
- visual area,
- visual aspect,
- visual cell,
- visual communication,
- visual cortex,
- visual defect,
- visual disorder,
- visual field,
- visual hallucination,
- visual image,
- visual impairment,
- visual joke,
- visual magnitude,
- visual modality,
- visual percept,
- visual perception,
- visual property,
- visual range,
- visual sensation,
- visual sense,
- visual signal,
- visual space,
- visual system,
- visually challenged,
- visually impaired,
- first visual area,
- visual display unit,
- visually impaired person