| slovo | definícia |
visual
(mass) | visual
- vizuálny |
visual
(encz) | visual,vizuální adj: Zdeněk Brož |
visual
(encz) | visual,zrakový adj: Ritchie |
Visual
(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.
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The air,
Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.
--Milton.
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2. That can be seen; visible. [R.]
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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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visual
(wn) | visual
adj 1: relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an
optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation"
[syn: ocular, optic, optical, visual]
2: visible; "be sure of it; give me the ocular proof"-
Shakespeare; "a visual presentation"; "a visual image" [syn:
ocular, visual] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
audiovisual
(mass) | audiovisual
- audiovizuálny |
visualization
(mass) | visualization
- predstava |
audio-visual
(encz) | audio-visual,audio-vizuální adj: |
audiovisual
(encz) | audiovisual,audiovizuální adj: |
nonvisual
(encz) | nonvisual, adj: |
televisual
(encz) | televisual,televizní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
visual acuity
(encz) | visual acuity, n: |
visual agnosia
(encz) | visual agnosia, n: |
visual aid
(encz) | visual aid,vizuální pomůcka n: Zdeněk Brož |
visual aids
(encz) | visual aids,vizuální pomůcky Zdeněk Brož |
visual aphasia
(encz) | visual aphasia, n: |
visual area
(encz) | visual area, n: |
visual arts
(encz) | visual arts,vizuální umění n: Zdeněk Brož |
visual aspect
(encz) | visual aspect, n: |
visual cell
(encz) | visual cell, n: |
visual communication
(encz) | visual communication, n: |
visual cortex
(encz) | visual cortex, n: |
visual defect
(encz) | visual defect, n: |
visual disorder
(encz) | visual disorder, n: |
visual display unit
(encz) | visual display unit, n: |
visual field
(encz) | visual field, n: |
visual hallucination
(encz) | visual hallucination, n: |
visual image
(encz) | visual image, n: |
visual impairment
(encz) | visual impairment, n: |
visual joke
(encz) | visual joke, n: |
visual modality
(encz) | visual modality, n: |
visual percept
(encz) | visual percept, n: |
visual perception
(encz) | visual perception, n: |
visual property
(encz) | visual property, n: |
visual purple
(encz) | visual purple, n: |
visual range
(encz) | visual range, n: |
visual sensation
(encz) | visual sensation, n: |
visual sense
(encz) | visual sense, n: |
visual signal
(encz) | visual signal, n: |
visual space
(encz) | visual space, n: |
visual system
(encz) | visual system, n: |
visualisation
(encz) | visualisation,vizualizace n: Zdeněk Brož |
visualise
(encz) | visualise,představit si Zdeněk Brož |
visualised
(encz) | visualised, |
visualiser
(encz) | visualiser, n: |
visualising
(encz) | visualising, |
visualization
(encz) | visualization,představa n: Zdeněk Brožvisualization,vizualizace n: Zdeněk Brožvisualization,znázornění n: Zdeněk Brožvisualization,zviditelnění n: Zdeněk Brož |
visualize
(encz) | visualize,představit si v: Toldavisualize,vizualizovat v: Zdeněk Brožvisualize,zviditelnit v: Zdeněk Brož |
visualized
(encz) | visualized,vizualizovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
visualizer
(encz) | visualizer, |
visualizes
(encz) | visualizes,vizualizuje v: Zdeněk Brož |
visualizing
(encz) | visualizing,vizualizující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
visually
(encz) | visually,vizuálně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
visually challenged
(encz) | visually challenged, adj: |
visually handicapped person
(encz) | visually handicapped person, n: |
visually impaired
(encz) | visually impaired, adj: |
beyond visual range
(czen) | Beyond Visual Range,BVR[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
visual electrodiagnostic laboratory
(czen) | Visual Electrodiagnostic Laboratory,VEL[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
visual flight rules
(czen) | Visual Flight Rules,VFR[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
visually coupled acquisition and targeting system
(czen) | Visually Coupled Acquisition and Targeting System,VCATS[zkr.]
[voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
within visual range
(czen) | Within Visual Range,WVRn: [zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
audio-visual
(gcide) | audiovisual \audiovisual\ audio-visual \audio-visual\adj.
1. 1 pertaining to or using audiovisual aids in teaching or
exposition the school's audiovisual department
[WordNet 1.5]audiovisual \audiovisual\ n.
1. 1 materials using sight or sound to present information;
-- usually used in the plural. "language tapes and
videocassettes and other audiovisuals"
Syn: audiovisual aid.
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audiovisual
(gcide) | audiovisual \audiovisual\ audio-visual \audio-visual\adj.
1. 1 pertaining to or using audiovisual aids in teaching or
exposition the school's audiovisual department
[WordNet 1.5]audiovisual \audiovisual\ n.
1. 1 materials using sight or sound to present information;
-- usually used in the plural. "language tapes and
videocassettes and other audiovisuals"
Syn: audiovisual aid.
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Photovisual
(gcide) | Photovisual \Pho`to*vis"u*al\, a. (Optics)
Of certain achromatic lenses, having the same focus for the
actinic and for the brightest of the visual rays.
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Visual
(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.
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The air,
Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.
--Milton.
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2. That can be seen; visible. [R.]
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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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Visual angle
(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.
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The air,
Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.
--Milton.
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2. That can be seen; visible. [R.]
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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]Angle \An"gle\ ([a^][ng]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle,
corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked,
angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook,
G. angel, and F. anchor.]
1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a
corner; a nook.
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Into the utmost angle of the world. --Spenser.
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To search the tenderest angles of the heart.
--Milton.
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2. (Geom.)
(a) The figure made by. two lines which meet.
(b) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines
meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
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3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
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Though but an angle reached him of the stone.
--Dryden.
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4. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological
"houses." [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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5. [AS. angel.] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish,
consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a
rod.
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Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there.
--Shak.
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A fisher next his trembling angle bears. --Pope.
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Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than
90[deg].
Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg
common to both angles.
Alternate angles. See Alternate.
Angle bar.
(a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of
a polygonal or bay window meet. --Knight.
(b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron.
Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle
of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of
a wall.
Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an
interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse
and securing the two side pieces together. --Knight.
Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having
one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or
connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to
which it is riveted.
Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or
less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to
strengthen an angle.
Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for
ascertaining the dip of strata.
Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a
capital or base, or both.
Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines.
External angles, angles formed by the sides of any
right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or
lengthened.
Facial angle. See under Facial.
Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined
figure.
Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved
line.
Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a
right angle.
Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than
90[deg].
Optic angle. See under Optic.
Rectilineal or Right-lined angle, one formed by two right
lines.
Right angle, one formed by a right line falling on another
perpendicularly, or an angle of 90[deg] (measured by a
quarter circle).
Solid angle, the figure formed by the meeting of three or
more plane angles at one point.
Spherical angle, one made by the meeting of two arcs of
great circles, which mutually cut one another on the
surface of a globe or sphere.
Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two
straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object
to the center of the eye.
For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence,
reflection, refraction, position, repose, fraction,
see Commutation, Draught, Incidence, Reflection,
Refraction, etc.
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Visual axis
(gcide) | Axis \Ax"is\, n.; pl. Axes. [L. axis axis, axle. See Axle.]
A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body,
on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line
passing through a body or system around which the parts are
symmetrically arranged.
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2. (Math.) A straight line with respect to which the
different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged;
as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone,
that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the
center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight
line passing through the center.
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3. (Bot.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal
support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the
central line of any body. --Gray.
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4. (Anat.)
(a) The second vertebra of the neck, or {vertebra
dentata}.
(b) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is
prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first
vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process
or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head
to turn upon.
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5. (Crystallog.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in
describing the position of the planes by which a crystal
is bounded.
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6. (Fine Arts) The primary or secondary central line of any
design.
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Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the
strata slope downward on the two opposite sides.
Synclinal axis, a line from which the strata slope upward
in opposite directions, so as to form a valley.
Axis cylinder (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central
substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also axis band,
axial fiber, and cylinder axis.
Axis in peritrochio, the wheel and axle, one of the
mechanical powers.
Axis of a curve (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a
system of parallel chords of a curve; called a {principal
axis}, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it
divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the
parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has
two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two
axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the {minor
axis}, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the
transverse axis and the conjugate axis.
Axis of a lens, the straight line passing through its
center and perpendicular to its surfaces.
Axis of a microscope or Axis of a telescope, the straight
line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses
which compose it.
Axes of co["o]rdinates in a plane, two straight lines
intersecting each other, to which points are referred for
the purpose of determining their relative position: they
are either rectangular or oblique.
Axes of co["o]rdinates in space, the three straight lines
in which the co["o]rdinate planes intersect each other.
Axis of a balance, that line about which it turns.
Axis of oscillation, of a pendulum, a right line passing
through the center about which it vibrates, and
perpendicular to the plane of vibration.
Axis of polarization, the central line around which the
prismatic rings or curves are arranged. --Brewster.
Axis of revolution (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line
about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the
several points of the line or plane shall describe circles
with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes
perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of
revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution.
Axis of symmetry (Geom.), any line in a plane figure which
divides the figure into two such parts that one part, when
folded over along the axis, shall coincide with the other
part.
Axis of the equator, ecliptic, horizon (or other circle
considered with reference to the sphere on which it lies),
the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the
plane of the circle. --Hutton.
Axis of the Ionic capital (Arch.), a line passing
perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the
volute.
Neutral axis (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the
horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression,
exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder.
Optic axis of a crystal, the direction in which a ray of
transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All
crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial
or biaxial.
Optic axis, Visual axis (Opt.), the straight line passing
through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the
surface of the eye.
Radical axis of two circles (Geom.), the straight line
perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such
that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles
shall be equal to each other.
Spiral axis (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn
spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without.
Axis of abscissas and Axis of ordinates. See Abscissa.
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Visual cone
(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.
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The air,
Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.
--Milton.
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2. That can be seen; visible. [R.]
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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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visual magnitude
(gcide) | Magnitude \Mag"ni*tude\, n. [L. magnitudo, from magnus great.
See Master, and cf. Maxim.]
1. Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have
length, breadth, and thickness.
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Conceive those particles of bodies to be so disposed
amongst themselves, that the intervals of empty
spaces between them may be equal in magnitude to
them all. --Sir I.
Newton.
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2. (Geom.) That which has one or more of the three
dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.
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3. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as
time, weight, force, and the like.
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4. Greatness; grandeur. "With plain, heroic magnitude of
mind." --Milton.
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5. Greatness, in reference to influence or effect;
importance; as, an affair of magnitude.
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The magnitude of his designs. --Bp. Horsley.
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6. (Astron.) See magnitude of a star, below.
[PJC]
Apparent magnitude
1. (Opt.), the angular breadth of an object viewed as
measured by the angle which it subtends at the eye of the
observer; -- called also apparent diameter.
2. (Astron.) Same as magnitude of a star, below.
Magnitude of a star (Astron.), the rank of a star with
respect to brightness. About twenty very bright stars are
said to be of first magnitude, the stars of the sixth
magnitude being just visible to the naked eye; called also
visual magnitude, apparent magnitude, and simply
magnitude. Stars observable only in the telescope are
classified down to below the twelfth magnitude. The
difference in actual brightness between magnitudes is now
specified as a factor of 2.512, i.e. the difference in
brightness is 100 for stars differing by five magnitudes.
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Visual plane
(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.
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The air,
Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.
--Milton.
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2. That can be seen; visible. [R.]
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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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Visual point
(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.
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The air,
Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.
--Milton.
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2. That can be seen; visible. [R.]
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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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Visual purple
(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.
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The air,
Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.
--Milton.
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2. That can be seen; visible. [R.]
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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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Visual ray
(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.
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The air,
Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.
--Milton.
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2. That can be seen; visible. [R.]
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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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Visual white
(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.
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The air,
Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.
--Milton.
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2. That can be seen; visible. [R.]
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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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Visual yellow
(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.
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The air,
Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.
--Milton.
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2. That can be seen; visible. [R.]
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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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visualise
(gcide) | Visualize \Vis"u*al*ize\, v. t.
1. To make visual, or visible. [Written also visualise.]
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2. to see in the imagination; to form a mental image of.
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No one who has not seen them [glaciers] can possibly
visualize them. --Lubbock.
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Visualize
(gcide) | Visualize \Vis"u*al*ize\, v. t.
1. To make visual, or visible. [Written also visualise.]
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2. to see in the imagination; to form a mental image of.
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No one who has not seen them [glaciers] can possibly
visualize them. --Lubbock.
[1913 Webster]Visualize \Vis"u*al*ize\, v. i.
To form a mental image of something not present before the
eye at the time.
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