visual

• visuall (obsolete, rare)

Borrowed from Old French, from Late Latin visualis (“of sight”), from Latin visus (“sight”), from videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see visage.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪʒʊəl/, /ˈvɪzjʊəl/, /ˈvɪʒəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪʒuəl/, /ˈvɪʒwəl/

visual (comparative more visual, superlative most visual)

1. Related to or affecting the vision.
   • 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.

2. (obsolete) That can be seen; visible.

visual (plural visuals)

1. Any element of something that depends on sight.
2. An image; a picture; a graphic.
3. (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multi-media presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
4. (advertising) A preliminary sketch.

• visual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• visual in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Auvils

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

visual (epicene, plural visuales)

1. visual

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

visual (masculine and feminine plural visuals)

1. visual

• visualment

• “visual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

visual m or f (plural visuais)

1. visual

• visualmente

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

visual m or f (plural visuais, comparable)

1. visual

• visualmente

Borrowed from Late Latin visuālis, from Latin visus.

visual (plural visuales)

1. visual

• visualmente