visible
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
visible/ˈvɪzəbl/
▶adjective
- 1 able to be seen.
■ (of light) within the range of wavelengths to which the eye is sensitive.
- 2 able to be perceived easily.
■ in a position of public prominence.
- 3 relating to imports or exports of tangible commodities.
– derivatives
visibleness noun,
visibly adverb.
visibleness noun,
visibly adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr., or from L. visibilis, from videre ‘to see’.
'visible' also found in these Oxford entries:
amaurosis
- annular eclipse
- appearance
- autocue
- beam
- bear
- blind stitch
- bubble chamber
- cloud
- cloud chamber
- conspicuous
- cryptocrystalline
- damask
- dark star
- daylight
- develop
- dioptre
- disappear
- dust devil
- eidetic
- electromagnetic radiation
- embodiment
- embody
- emerge
- expose
- extant
- fantastic
- field
- field mark
- five o'clock shadow
- forked lightning
- form
- full face
- grainy
- greenhouse effect
- half-moon
- hinterland
- image
- inconspicuous
- landscape
- latent image
- lateral line
- lather
- leptotene
- libration
- light
- luminous
- macroscopic
- marked
- meet
