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VISIBLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Present and easily available
Example:
visible resources
Classified under:
Similar:
available (obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Obvious to the eye
Example:
a visible change of expression
Classified under:
Similar:
open; overt (open and observable; not secret or hidden)
Derivation:
visibility; visibleness (quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Capable of being seen; or open to easy view
Example:
visible files
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
circumpolar ((of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel)
in sight (at or within a reasonable distance for seeing)
macroscopic; macroscopical (visible to the naked eye; using the naked eye)
gross; megascopic (visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features))
microscopic; microscopical (visible under a microscope; using a microscope)
subgross (too small to be visible to the naked eye)
panoptic; panoptical (including everything visible in one view)
telescopic (visible only with a telescope)
viewable (capable of being viewed)
Also:
perceptible (capable of being perceived by the mind or senses)
Antonym:
invisible (impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye)
Derivation:
visibility; visibleness (quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye)
Context examples:
The extent of an area that is visible.
(Field of View, NCI Thesaurus)
Lesions must be visible grossly (greater than 0.5mm).
(Adenoma of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
The pores are visible but not large.
(Normal Skin, NCI Thesaurus)
There was no wound, no blood, no visible bruise; but her eyes were closed, she breathed not, her face was like death.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A device that uses x-rays instead of visible light to form images of very small structures, such as the insides of blood vessels and cells.
(Nanoprobe, NCI Dictionary)
The radiation emitted is usually of longer wavelength than that incident or absorbed, e.g., a substance can be irradiated with invisible radiation and emit visible light.
(Fluorescence, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Indeed, His judgments seemed to be in visible operation before us when we looked upon what this woman was, and what she had been.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Supermassive black holes draw gas and matter into a disk around them, heating the disk to roaring temperatures of millions of degrees and blasting out high-energy, visible, ultraviolet and X-ray light.
(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)
A new Moon occurs when all of the Sun’s light is reflected away from Earth, and the side of the Moon facing Earth is barely visible, as illustrated in the above figures.
(Earthshine, NASA)
The robbers, therefore, made him get on the horse, and handed him the stick and the cloak, and when he had put this round him he was no longer visible.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
