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A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

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{ "term": "visual", "partOfSpeech": "adjective", "academic": true, "ox3000": true, "cefr": "b2", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "of or connected with seeing or sight", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "the **visual arts**" }, { "text": "The building makes a tremendous visual impact." }, { "text": "dramatic visual effects" }, { "text": "visual artists" }, { "text": "I have a very good visual memory." }, { "text": "A reader creates visual images of the characters in a novel." }, { "text": "The photographs she takes are a visual record of her travels." }, { "text": "The company relied on simple visual inspections of the tunnels to confirm their safety." }, { "text": "A driverless vehicle identifies visual cues on the road, such as other cars or traffic signs." }, { "text": "The website will be very visual." }, { "text": "the film's unique visual style" } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/ˈvɪʒuəl/", "audio": "vi/visual/visual__gb_2.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/ˈvɪʒuəl/", "audio": "vi/visual/visual__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (originally describing a beam imagined to proceed from the eye and make vision possible): from late Latin visualis, from Latin visus ‘sight’, from videre ‘to see’. The current noun sense dates from the 1950s." }