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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Possible to see; perceptible to the eye: a visible object.
  2. adj. Obvious to the eye: a visible change of expression.
  3. adj. Being often in the public view; conspicuous.
  4. adj. Manifest; apparent: no visible solution to the problem.
  5. adj. On hand; available: a visible supply.
  6. adj. Constructed or designed to keep important parts in easily accessible view: a visible file.
  7. adj. Represented visually, as by symbols.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; open to sight.
  2. Apparent; open; conspicuous: as, a man with no visible means of support.
  3. In entomology, noting parts which are not concealed by other parts, as the spiracles when they are not concealed under the hard parts of the integument: opposed to covered
  4. n. That which is seen by the eye.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Able to be seen.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view
  2. adj. Noticeable; apparent; open; conspicuous.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. capable of being seen; or open to easy view
  2. adj. present and easily available
  3. adj. obvious to the eye

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vīsibilis, from vīsus, past participle of vidēre, to see; see vision.

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