visual
of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
used in seeing: the visual sense.
perceptible by the sense of sight; visible: a visual beauty.
perceptible by the mind; of the nature of a mental vision: a visual impression captured in a line of verse.
Usually visuals.
the picture elements, as distinguished from the sound elements, in films, television, etc.
a rough, preliminary sketch of an advertising layout, showing possible arrangements of material.: Compare comprehensive (def. 5).
any item or element depending on the sense of sight.
Origin of visual
1Other words from visual
- non·vis·u·al, adjective
- sub·vis·u·al, adjective, noun
- su·per·vis·u·al, adjective
- su·per·vis·u·al·ly, adverb
- un·vis·u·al, adjective
- un·vis·u·al·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with visual
- visible, visual
Words Nearby visual
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How to use visual in a sentence
The weekly slide shows published to Instagram will teach you the skills of a visual investigator.
Introducing #DIYFactCheck, a project from The Fact Checker | Nadine Ajaka, Elyse Samuels, Sarah Cahlan | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostThis will ensure no one misses any visual signals about what’s happening, allowing them to prepare for new material.
Online classes are difficult for the hard of hearing. Here’s how to fix that. | Eli Reiter | February 9, 2021 | Popular-ScienceGoogle and Bing both use for visual search, Google has their Google Lens and Bing has their visual search.
Image SEO: Best practices and tips for optimization | Michael McManus | February 8, 2021 | Search Engine WatchDirected by Benoit Lalande, Nomad Africa is a visual experiment featuring surfer Alex Smith and the powerful waves and wilds of this ancient continent.
Landscapes, Seascapes: A Surfer's Study of Wild Africa | Outside Editors | February 7, 2021 | Outside OnlineFor example, a system for diagnosing medical scans might first learn to identify basic visual features, such as shape and outline, by being pretrained on a database of everyday objects—such as ImageNet, which contains more than 14 million photos.
Fractals can help AI learn to see more clearly—or at least more fairly | Will Heaven | February 4, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
Bottom line is that it will only be a BVR [beyond visual range] airplane.
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Fire Its Gun Until 2019 | Dave Majumdar | December 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMost of them were large birds—hawks, egrets, and even peacocks—for spectacular visual effect as they took flight.
The Buddhist Business of Poaching Animals for Good Karma | Brendon Hong | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTInstead, the writers had to rely on visual cues and ambiance.
Yep, Korra and Asami Went in the Spirit Portal and Probably Kissed | Melissa Leon | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd since visual media is more compelling than any other medium, it is consistently their drug of choice.
North Korea’s Secret Movie Bootleggers: How Western Films Make It Into the Hermit Kingdom | Lizzie Crocker | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn movies, that language, visual and verbal, has yet to be mastered.
He devoured it whole with a kind of visual gulp—a flash; the entire meaning first, then lines, then separate words.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThis hour gives to the imaginative in every land a thrill, a yearning, and a pang of visual regeneration.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaFor this reason the photographic images are less sensitive to conditions affecting the seeing than the visual images.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters | James Edward KeelerFor visual observation the Crossley telescope is provided with seven eyepieces, with powers ranging from 620 downward.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters | James Edward KeelerHowever the scout did not move toward it until after a long moment of both visual and mental inspection of his surroundings.
Star Born | Andre Norton
British Dictionary definitions for visual
/ (ˈvɪʒʊəl, -zjʊ-) /
of, relating to, done by, or used in seeing: visual powers; visual steering
another word for optical
capable of being seen; visible
of, occurring as, or induced by a mental image
a sketch to show the proposed layout of an advertisement, as in a newspaper
(often plural) a photograph, film, or other display material
Origin of visual
1Derived forms of visual
- visually, adverb
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