visualadj.n.
/ˈvɪzjʊəl/, /ˈvɪʒʊəl/, /ˈvɪzj(ᵿ)l/, /ˈvɪʒ(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˈvɪʒ(ə)wəl/, /ˈvɪʒəl/ A. adj.
1.
a. Of beams: Coming, proceeding, or directed from the eye or sight. Obsolete or archaic.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > visual ray
visual1412
visive1622
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 1697 Þat of oure siȝt þe stremys visual May nat be-holde, nor I-sen at al,..How Appollo is in his chare schynende.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1362 It fareth with us in this case, as with those who would see a thing very farre distant; for of necessitie the visual beames of his sight doe faile before they can reach thereto.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion Pref. sig. A3v Trusting Authorities at second hand, and rash collecting..from visuall beam's refracted through anothers eye.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 163 For inward light alas Puts forth no visual beam. View more context for this quotation
b. visual line n. the direct line from the eye to the object or point of vision; the line of sight.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > line of sight
line of sight1559
visual line?a1560
ray1625
eyeline1664
line of collimation1687
sight-line1859
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xx. sig. F ij v Agayne my line visuall proceeding from D to H the subtill notche in the subtendente side of the angle, extendeth to my fifte staffe G.
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 116 By meanes of the shadowes, or visuall lines, representing the saide shadowes.
1667 Sir R. Moray in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 474 The Visual line that passeth from the Eye to the upper-side of the Mark.
1755 Dict. Arts & Sci. at Perspective In drawing a perspective figure, where many lines come together, you may..draw the diagonals in red; the visual lines in black.
1850 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens ii. iv. 135 Merely to indicate that they lie in almost the same visual line, or that their proximity is optical only, and not real.
c. visual ray n. a ray proceeding from the eye to the object seen (cf. visual beam above), or in later use from the object to the eye.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > visual ray
ray1531
eye-beam1583
visual ray1625
visual1726
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. vi. 154 The visuall Ray wherein the sight is carried, is alwaies a right line.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 620 The Aire, No where so cleer, sharp'nd his visual ray To objects distant farr. View more context for this quotation
1755 Dict. Arts & Sci. at Perspective The point of sight..is the point where all the other visual rays..unite.
1780 Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 649 The great and varying refractions of the visual rays.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 710 Visual rays, are those which, passing through the transparent plane, render original objects visible. Principal visual ray, is that which passes through the axis or centre of the eye.
1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. 203 If the visual ray from the upper extremity A′ coincide with the visual ray from the upper extremity of the other.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 475 The instrument will give us the angle formed by the visual ray with our base-line.
2. figurative.1828 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 197 Language..when it becomes too copious,..altogether destroys the visual power [of the imagination].1849 W. A. Butler Serm. vii. 114 Faith is the realizing power. Its the visual sense of the Spirit.
a. Of power or faculty: Pertaining or relating to, concerned or connected with, sight or vision. visual acuity, sharpness of vision; spec. as measured or expressed in terms of a definite scale (see quot. 1974).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective]
perspective?a1475
optical1570
optic1600
visual1603
specular1656
speculative1656
visional1790
visionary1814
ocular1831
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [noun] > clear- or sharp-sightedness
quicknessa1398
clearness1535
eagle eye1567
perspicacity1606
quicksightedness1625
piercingnessa1628
sharpsightedness1647
edgea1682
clear-sightednessa1691
acuity1866
visual acuity1889
V.A.1932
stereo-acuity1942
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1345 As the one [sc. the sun] kindles, bringeth foorth and stirreth up the visuall power and vertue of the sense.
1798 W. Wordsworth Peter Bell 918 The Spirits of the Mind Are busy..Upon the rights of visual sense Usurping.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. i. 13 That part of the Brain which is the instrument of our Visual Consciousness.
1889 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VII. 665/2 Comparative researches upon the visual acuity of different parts of the retina.
1938 R. L. Rea Neuro-ophthalmol. iv. 86 In the early stages [of papillœdema] there may be..full central visual acuity.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VII. 104/1 A visual acuity of unity indicates a power of resolving detail subtending one minute of arc at the eye; a visual acuity of two indicates a resolution of one-half minute..of arc.
b. visual purple [translating German sehpurpur (apparently first used by W. Kühne 1877, in Verh. d. Naturhist.-med. Verein zu Heidelberg I. 484)] : = rhodopsin n.
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the world > life > biology > substance > pigment > [noun] > human or animal pigments > purple > rhodopsin
rhodophane1878
rhodopsin1878
visual purple1878
lumirhodopsin1950
metarhodopsin1950
prelumirhodopsin1963
1877 Nature 1 Feb. 296/1 These first observations of Kühne on the vision-purple (Sehpurpur), as he terms it.]
1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) iii. ii. 415 For the restoration of the visual purple, after it has been destroyed by light, the maintenance of the circulation of the blood through the tissues of the eye is not essential.
1921 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 92 232 A highly dilute visual purple may suffice for the requirements of photopic vision.
1953 Sci. News 30 116 Although as many as six visual pigments have been recognized in different species, only one, visual purple, has been obtained from the human retina.
1983 Guardian 4 Aug. 17/2 Retinaldehyde..is present in the retina of the eye combined with the visual pigment known as visual purple.
3.
a. Of organs: Endowed with the power of sight; having the function of producing vision. Cf. optic adj. 1.
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > [adjective]
oculate1549
ocularc1600
visual1626
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §400 An Eye..hath beene thrust forth, so as it hanged a pretty distance by the Visuall Nerue.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 415 Michael..then purg'd with Euphrasie and Rue The visual Nerve [of Adam], for he had much to see. View more context for this quotation
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub xi. 200 The Virtue of the visual Nerve, which every little Accident shakes out of Order.
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 228 An assemblage of several organs, all concurring to the production of a single result, constitutes an apparatus,—the visual apparatus, the digestive apparatus [etc.].
1874 tr. E. Lommel Nature of Light (ed. 4) 1 The visual organ, like every other special sense, possesses a peculiar form of sensibility.
1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish iii. 121 Each of these visual pyramids consists of an axial structure—the visual rod invested by a sheath.
b. Of the eye, or in phrases denoting this, as visual orb. Chiefly poetic.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun]
eyeeOE
the fleshly eyec1175
balla1400
window1481
glazier1567
light1580
crystal1592
orb1594
glass1597
optic1601
twinkler1605
lampa1616
watchera1616
wink-a-peeps1615
visive organa1652
ogle1673
peeper1691
goggle?1705
visual orb1725
orbit1727
winker1734
peep?1738
daylights?1747
eyewinker1808
keeker1808
glimmer1814
blinker1816
glim1820
goggler1821
skylight1824
ocular1825
mince pie1857
saucer1858
mince1937
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 90 Neptune..Afflicts the chief, t'avenge his Giant son Whose visual orb Ulysses robb'd of light.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 454 Urg'd by some present God, they swift let fall The pointed torment on his visual ball.
1801 Lusignan IV. 177 [She] complained that the light,..hurt the visual optic.
1876 L. Morris Epic of Hades ii. 143 By night, When visual eyes are blind.
4.
a. Of knowledge: Attained or obtained by sight or vision.In early use apparently contrasted with book-knowledge.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > obtained by sight
visual1651
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋74 Mathiolus,..and other Herbalists, have hitherto been busied only about the features, and visuall knowledge of Plants, but all of them..describe vertues out of Dioscorides.
1903 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Romance iv. v. 270 These..were the only two men of whom she could be said to have more than a visual knowledge.
b. Carried out or performed by means of vision.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > carried out by sight
visual1849
1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. x. 155 The visual perception of His Form would be a small blessing.
1882 R. A. Proctor Familiar Sci. Stud. 8 The visual test however is independent.
c. Of impressions, etc.: Received through the sense of sight; based upon something seen.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > perceived by sight
visual1833
1833 C. Bell Hand (1834) 327 Were the eye fixed in the head..we should still be capable of comparing the visual impression with the experience of the body.
1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 103 The visual ideas, which thus become our main symbols of tangible objects.
1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (1878) iii. ii. 397 These two things we will briefly distinguish as visual sensations and visual judgments.
1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight iii. 37 All parts of the retina are not equally sensitive to visual impressions.
5. In general use.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > in relation to object
visual1812
1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xi. 91 Certain smaller corrections belonging..to some change in the position of the poles of the earth: or to causes merely visual and optical.
1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 158 It is indeed quite conceivable that, in beings of another race, the visual scale may be much larger than ours.
6.
a. That is an object of vision or sight; capable of being seen; perceptible, visible.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective]
i-seyenlyeOE
iseneOE
senec1175
seyelyc1225
visiblea1340
seena1398
sighty1398
seeablea1425
spectablec1440
sightfulc1480
sightly1532
appearingc1550
discernable1561
eyely1561
discoverable1572
spectible1581
observable1589
visive1598
aspectable1612
observant1615
perspicable1621
perspiculative1623
remarkable1623
eyeable1633
visory1633
appearable1651
dignoscible1671
discernible1678
traceable1748
noticeable1753
visual1757
distinguishable1762
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §27. 114 A clear and settled idea of visual beauty.
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iv. §15. 143 Among many remarkable particulars that attended his first perceptions, and judgments on visual objects.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 295 The second commandment expressly makes the worshipping of God in or before a visual image of him..idolatry.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxv. 313 Refraction, with its preternatural augmentation of the visual hemisphere, revisited us.
1869 J. Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 237 Of all the visual waves emitted by the sun, the shortest and smallest are those which correspond to the colour blue.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. vi. 223 The spectrum embraces three classes of rays—the thermal, the visual, and the chemical.
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 240 Which from the visual aspect of colour should appear almost black.
b. Of actions, conditions, etc. Also, characterized by visibility.
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1828 T. Carlyle Goethe in Foreign Rev. 2 117 Everything has form, everything has visual existence; the poet's imagination bodies forth the forms of things unseen.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 111 That this so solid-looking material world..is a visual and tactual Manifestation of God's power and presence.
1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 145 The inclination may be seen by the eye, by bringing it [the wall] into visual contact with the upright pilasters.
1867 G. F. Chambers Descr. Astron. i. i. 8 The entire period required by a spot to make a whole visual rotation.
c. Of signalling or a signal.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > of signals
visual1876
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 424/1 Visual signalling was formerly carried on by semaphores.
1895 Outing 26 396/2 Visual signaling embraces flags, heliograph, torch, flash light, etc.
1906 Times 20 Aug. 5/1 I proceeded as far..as ensured my being able to use visual signals to the signal station.
d. visual aid n. illustrative matter designed to supplement written or spoken information; spec. in Education with reference to pictures, models, films, etc., as an aid to learning. Originally U.S.
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > teaching aids > specific
abacusa1387
fescue1513
wand1589
feasetraw1595
pointer1658
sandboard1817
letter card1819
object chart1866
teaching specimen1881
realia1894
filmstrip1896
visual aid1911
flash card1923
flannelgraph1944
teaching machine1958
manipulative1965
kit1968
1911 P. Monroe Cycl. Educ. V. 734/2 The last century of schoolroom practice has been marked by a great increase in the use of natural objects, models, pictures, maps, charts, and other visual aids.
1938 Rep. Physical Educ. & Film (Brit. Film Inst.) 1 The function of the film in education has been defined as that of a visual aid.
1958 Economist 29 Nov. 764/1 The visual aids which the party's television programme used to good effect.
1967 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 14 Mar. (1970) 497 In one room they were using visual-aid machines for faster reading.
1980 E. Blishen Nest of Teachers i. ii. 11 That most familiar of visual aids, an extremely tatty blackboard.
e. visual display (Computers) = display n. 1c; visual display unit, a device for displaying on its screen data stored in a computer, and usually incorporating a keyboard for manipulating the data; abbreviated VDU n., vdu, variant of VDU n. at V n. Initialisms 2.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > monitor
colour monitor1941
visual display unit1954
computer monitor1963
computer screen1966
VDU1968
VDT1975
monitor1976
Multisync1986
1954 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 1 57/1 Cathode ray tube equipment for providing external visual displays of information stored internally in the computer.
1967 M. Klerer & G. A. Korn Digital Computer User's Handbk. i. 77 The importance of the use of machine-produced graphs and other types of visual displays can hardly be over emphasized.
1969 Computers & Humanities 4 83 For those interested in on-line text manipulation, there is special temptation in newer devices like cathode ray tubes (CRTs) or visual displays, or ‘scopes’, as they are variously called.
1971 J. Anderson in B. de Ferranti Living with Computer vii. 59 With..the introduction..of visual display units..there has been a resurgence of interest in applying such techniques to medical recording.
1977 R.A.F. News 11 May 7/2 When can we have our visual display unit?
1983 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 July 271 Most of the comments relating to paper records apply to visual displays for data entry.
1984 Times 16 Nov. 12/4 The latest scare comes from reports of women who worked on visual display units (VDUs) during pregnancy and went on to deliver handicapped babies or suffer miscarriages.
7.
a. Of the nature of a mental vision; produced or occurring as a picture in the mind.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective]
imaginary1594
imaginal1638
visual1817
imagic1937
imagy1937
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > imagined or visualized
presenta1393
conceivedc1425
imaginate1533
conceited1543
imaginedc1550
surmised1578
coined1582
brain-spun1595
brain-born1596
fustian1601
brain-bred1606
humoured1613
imaged1718
visual1817
visualized1817
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. iv. 76 The change of one visual image for another involves in itself no absurdity.
1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 88 Let the reader try to make a visual scene of it as he can.
1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude x. 192 When we are thinking or talking of a person, we recall some visual image of that person.
1875 E. White Life in Christ (1876) i. v. 46 The deeper is the sense of incompetence even to imagine as a visual conception the mass of human beings who have tenanted it.
b. Carrying or conveying a mental vision or image.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [adjective] > conveying to the mind
representativea1475
projectivea1839
visual1868
1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) xiii. 469 The Greek Catalogue is charged throughout with what I may call local colour and visual epithets; epithets which..raise up a prospect or scene before the mental eye of a reader or a hearer.
B. n.
1. A visual ray: see A. 1c.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > visual ray
ray1531
eye-beam1583
visual ray1625
visual1726
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture III. 2/2 Certain Rays which minister to the sight..are called Visuals.
1780 Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 649 The quantity of effects and of errors in the visuals proceeding from this last cause must be very different at different times.
2. = visualist n. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > image held in memory > [noun] > person with visual memory
visual1886
visualist1895
1886 Mind 11 415 This division of men into visuals, audiles, motiles and indifferents, as we may respectively call them, if of great interest and importance.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 440 These variations depend..upon the question whether the patients are ‘auditives’ or ‘visuals’.
3. A visual image or display, a picture; spec. the visual element of a film or television production. Usually plural.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun]
vision1910
video1935
visual1951
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > visual element of film
visual1951
1951 Brit. Kinematogr. XIX. 110/1 A good deal has been done by..‘visuals’.
1959 Times 4 Mar. 11/7 Exposition is particularly difficult on television—it gets confused by the visuals and the speaker's loose words.
1961 Listener 19 Oct. 622/3 As the commentator's voice announced that allocations for shelters by the U.S. Government had been currently increased 700 per cent, we saw a visual of President Kennedy roaring with laughter.
1966 J. Derrick Teaching Eng. to Immigrants vii. 229 The Language Master..is a new transistorized machine into which can be fed visuals and reading matter on long cards.
1972 Observer 16 Apr. 34/6 Written entries..should be typed, visuals (a maximum of 3ft square) carefully packed.
1974 ‘D. Craig’ Dead Liberty xxi. 125 The Finance lads liked your economics piece... We're getting some graphs and other visuals done.
1984 Times 23 Jan. 7/1 There is more porn in the [cinema] subtitles than in the visuals.
Compounds
Of or pertaining to vision in relation to the object of sight; = optic adj. 5, optical n. 3. Chiefly in special collocations.
visual angle n.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > visual angle
optic angle1709
visual angle1710
1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Visual-angle, is the same with the Optick-Angle.
?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 205 The Visual or Optic Angle, is that which is contained under the two right lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the eye.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xii. 325 To-day's dinner subtends a larger visual angle than yesterday's revolution.
1873 W. Lees Acoustics ii. iv. 66 The size of an object depends upon the magnitude of the visual angle.
visual axis n.
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1874 tr. G. Hartwig Aerial World xiii. 198 If the sun rises, the visual axis sinks, and with it the rainbow.
visual field n.
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1880 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 169 He perceives correctly the position of objects in the visual field.
1927 B. Russell Anal. Matter xii. 111 The sort of relation that will not do is illustrated if we take xy = zw to mean that xy and zw have the same apparent dimensions in the visual field of a certain observer.
1961 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Notebks. 1914–16 45 What is a uniformly coloured part of my visual field composed of?
visual focus n.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > focal length or point
focus1664
focus1666
focal distance1684
focal point1692
burning-point1698
short focusa1830
visual focus1837
1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 63 What may be called the visual focus of a lens, or its distance from an object upon which we have adjusted its focus as a magnifier.
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 156 The making of the actinic and visual foci coincident.
visual point n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > emission of light, radiation > [noun] > meeting point
focus1664
visual point1679
focal point1713
chemical focus1841
point focus1908
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun]
sightc1515
standing point1606
station1659
aspect1660
point of view1701
viewpoint1839
visual point1842
standpoint1843
eye-point1875
1679 J. Moxon Math. made Easie (at cited word) The Visual Point in Perspective,..is a point in the Horizontal Line, wherein all the Occular Rays unite. [Hence in Phillips, Harris, etc.].
1755 Dict. Arts & Sci. at Perspective Let the object you intend to delineate..be placed also on the right-hand of the visual point.
1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Visual Point, the point of vision from which an object is viewed, synonymous with the point of sight.
visual range n.
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1953 R. Chisholm Cover of Darkness iii. 36 Reading the faces of cathode-ray tubes was a small part of the Observer's task. By description and instruction he had to get his Pilot to visual range.
1965 Observer 31 Oct. 1/1 ‘Visual range’—the distance one can see along the runway—is measured and passed to the pilot.
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visual effect n. chiefly Film and Television (originally) a scenic or optical illusion created on set using camerawork, stunts, pyrotechnics, props, etc. (see special effect n. at special adj., adv., and n. Compounds 2); (now chiefly) such an illusion created in post-production using computer software (as distinct from a mechanical special effect created on set); usually in plural; frequently attributive.In plural abbreviated VFX.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > [noun]
effect1838
special effect1907
visual effect1952
optical1953
FX1960
VFX1995
1952 Sight & Sound July 15/1 The other great visual effect, Birnam Woods coming to Dunsinane, the leafy tree-tops..moving implacably above a ground mist.
1984 J. Imes Special Visual Effects xi. 175 Perhaps the most dramatic visual effects are those of explosions, fire, lightning, and smoke. These effects are called pyrotechnics.
1996 N.Y. Times 30 June h11/5 Industrial Light and Magic..estimated the costs at about $150,000 for each visual effect.
2007 R. Morton Close Encounters of Third Kind xxiii. 253 Steven needed to split the majority of his post-production time between editing and the visual effects work.
2017 Scotsman (Nexis) 16 Aug. Junior 2D artist—visual effects. What do they do? They help artists produce all the whizzy visual effects (VFX).
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visual art n. (often in plural, as visual arts) one of the creative arts intended to be appreciated by sight, such as painting, sculpture, film, etc.; (as a mass noun) these arts collectively (often as contrasted with literature and music).Cf. fine art n. 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun]
arts of imitation1638
design1638
art1668
fine arts1686
imitative arts1753
designation1796
fine art1804
beaux arts1821
visual art1857
machine art1945
picturedom1945
1857 Manch. Courier 17 Oct. 9/5 The fine arts I intend to be understood in the widest sense of the expression, as including not only the visual arts—sculpture, architecture, and painting.
1918 Fine Arts Jrnl. 36 39/2 Painting is a visual art, an appeal to the soul through the sense of sight.
1993 This Mag. Mar. 21/2 Henry's newfound interest in visual art also signifies spiritual growth.
2015 New Yorker 23 Feb. 53 (advt.) Rivera's large painted murals..made ‘Muralism’ a key turning point in the visual arts.
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visual artist n. an artist who works in (a) visual art.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > artist
craftsman?1529
artsman1591
artist1608
crafter1643
visual artist1902
painter-stainer1909
1902 Boston Daily Globe 20 Aug. 7/3 The photographers..have steadily traveled along the lines of beauty in pictorial expression which have been trodden by the visual artists on canvas and paper.
2021 Yukon News (Nexis) 11 July Amy Ball, another finalist, is a visual artist... Ball works in several mediums including performance, installation, text, print making and film making.
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visual impairment n. decreased ability to see; partial or severe impairment of sight; (also) an instance of this.
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1868 Med. Press & Circular 30 Dec. 548/1 There is no ptosis, strabismus, or iritic adhesions, or visual impairment of any kind.
1953 Rev. Educ. Res. 23 478 Kirby surveyed by questionnaire the kind and degree of visual impairment in children enrolled in 600 of the 675 special classes for the partially seeing in the United States.
2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 May d9/1 It was a touch tour, a 35-year-old program that allows those with visual impairments..to don disposable gloves and explore selected works..when the museum is closed to the public.
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