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Webster 1913 Edition
Visible
1.
Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view;
as, a
visible
star; the least spot is visible
on white paper.Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things
visible
and invisible. Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Virtue made
visible
in outward grace. Young.
2.
Noticeable; apparent; open; conspicuous.
Shak.
The factions at court were greater, or more
visible
, than before. Clarendon.
Visible church
(Theol.)
, the apparent church of Christ on earth; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the invisible, or real, church, consisting of sanctified persons.
– Visible horizon
. Same as
Apparent horizon
, under Apparent
.Vis′i-ble-ness
, Noun.
Vis′i-bly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Visible
VIS'IBLE
,Adj.
1.
Perceivable by the eye; that can be seen; as a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper; air agitated by heat becomes visible; as the air near a heated stove, or over a dry sandy plain, appears like pellucid waves.Virtue made visible in outward grace.
2.
Discovered to the eye; as visible spirits.3.
Apparent; open; conspicuous. Factions at court became more visible.Visible church, in theology, the apparent church of Christ; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the real or invisible church, consisting of sanctified persons.
Visible horizon, the line that bounds the sight.
Definition 2024
visible
visible
English
Adjective
visible (comparative more visible, superlative most visible)
- Able to be seen.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
- Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
- 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 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.
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Translations
able to be seen
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External links
- visible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- visible in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Galician
Alternative forms
Adjective
visible m, f (plural visibles)