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語源

From 中期英語 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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈvɪʒuːəl/, /ˈvɪzjuːəl/, /ˈvɪʒəl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈvɪʒuəl/, /ˈvɪʒwəl/

形容詞

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, pages 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.

派生語

関連する語

名詞

visual (plural visuals)

1. Any element of something that depends on sight.
   • 2016, S. C. Sterling, Teenage Degenerate, page 5:

     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.

2. An image; a picture; a graphic.
3. (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
4. (advertising) A preliminary sketch.
5. (music) 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.

派生語

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “visual”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “4873168”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Further reading

• “visual”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “visual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Auvils