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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."
}