visual
pronunciation
How to pronounce visual in British English:
UK [ˈvɪʒuəl]
How to pronounce visual in American English:
US [ˈvɪʒuəl]
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- Adjective:
- relating to or using sight
- able to be seen
Word Origin
- visual
- visual: see visit
- visual (adj.)
- early 15c., "pertaining to the faculty of sight;" also "coming from the eye or sight" (as a beam of light was thought to do), from Late Latin visualis "of sight," from Latin visus "a sight, a looking; power of sight; things seen, appearance," from visus, past participle of videre "to see" (see vision). Meaning "perceptible by sight" is from late 15c; sense of "relating to vision" is first attested c. 1600. The noun meaning "photographic film or other visual display" is first recorded 1944.
Synonym
Example
- 1. It begins with the presentation of a visual cue .
- 2. Formal or aesthetic eleganceinvolves a website 's visual form .
- 3. Now a video posted to the sina web portal appears to offer visual confirmation .
- 4. Like most memory enhancement systems , the memory palace technique works with the use of visual associations .
- 5. Men generally are better at mentally manipulating objects and at performing certain quantitative tasks that rely on visual representations .