Meaning of visible in English

visible

adjective

/ˈvɪz.ə.bəl/ us

/ˈvɪz.ə.bəl/

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able to be seen:

You should wear something light-coloured when you're cycling at night so that you're more visible.

The writing on the tombstone was barely visible.

There are few visible signs of the illness that kept her in hospital for so long.

The comet should be visible to the naked eye.

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to appear

appearOne or two clouds appeared in the sky.
be/become visibleAs the beach gets darker, the glow of city lights becomes more visible.
show itselfHe believes the impact is showing itself clearly already.
emergeA slender figure is seen emerging from the darkness.
loomClouds of volcanic ash loomed menacingly overhead.

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able or likely to attract public attention and be noticed:

In a very short period of time, she has become a highly visible national leader.

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The farthest landmark visible is about 30 km away.
He had a tattoo on every visible appendage.
Unlike acid rain or deforestation, global warming has no visible manifestation .
The logo was still visible but less obtrusive this time in beige.
The pinnacles of the Himalayas were visible above the clouds.

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Apparent and obvious

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visible

adjective

/ˈvɪz·ə·bəl/

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able to be seen:

There are few visible signs of her recent illness.

The comet is visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy ball in the western sky.

Visible also means able or tending to attract public attention:

In a very short time, she became a highly visible environmental spokesperson.

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Examples of visible

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He experienced great problems writing it, and the intellectual struggles which he went through in order to 'take his stand' are both visible and complex.

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The cutting edge is deduced from the surface marks on finished carvings of the period as it is not visible on the window.

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The whole figure is outlined so that the shape of the original block is no longer visible.

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In practice there are two distinctly visible effects of this refusal.

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Thus, only one word was visible at any given time.

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Living things use the energy of visible light as a source of information about the world.

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Shorter still is infra-red radiation, and then comes visible light; both measurable in millimicrons or angstroms.

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In this phase only the forms of organisations are visible.

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Up on the plain the driver appears to move arbitrarily between barely visible tracks.

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Decades in a discussion of fashion magazines simply make the hands of the fashion clock more visible.

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Rats younger than 20 days of age cannot learn the spatial location of either a submerged or a visible platform.

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Only later are unanticipated costs and benefits visible; hindsight can make them appear deliberate all along.

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At that range it was impossible to distinguish details- but the royal standard should have been visible and was not.

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Well over 100 years ago the nation was concerned about the apparent deficit in visibles and the increase in invisibles.

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Exports, of course, consist of visibles and invisibles.

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Translations of visible

in Chinese (Traditional)

可以看見的, 可視的, 顯眼的…

Meaning of visible in English

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