visual
Related to or affecting the vision.
Adjective
- Related to or affecting the vision.
- 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...
- That can be seen; visible.
Origin
From Middle English visual, from French visuel, visual and directly from Late Latin vīsuālis (“of sight”), from vīsus (“sight, vision”) + -ālis (“adjective suffix”), from vidēre (“to see, perceive; look (at)”); see visage. By surface analysis, Latin vīsus + -ual.
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Noun
- Any element of something that depends on sight.
- It wasn't the first time I pulled an all-nighter, but normally I was coming off an acid trip and still seeing visuals dancing around in my head. - 2016, S. C. Sterling, Teenage Degenerate, page 5:
- An image; a picture; a graphic.
- All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
- A preliminary sketch.
- Any element of a show done by a marching band besides the marching and playing of instruments.
- The visual where the trombone all threw their instruments into the air looked good.