visnomył (viznomi)

[A corruption I think it safer to sit closer, and so to cloud the sun of my visnomy that no eye discern it. Chapman , May-Day, iii. 3. vison (vi's on), n. [NL. (Bri on); origin unknown.] The name specifically given to the American mink by Bri on in 1756, and subsequently so used by most authors. The name was used absolutely by Buffon in 1765, and generically by J. E. IMG:content-1898.png:[blocks in formation] vital What is this Me? A Voice, a Motion, an Appearance some embodied, visualized Idea in the Eternal Mind? Carlyle , Sartor Resartus, i. 8. Whatever may be the fate of these attempts to visualize the physics of the proce , it will still remain true that to account for the phenomena of radiation and absorption we must take into consideration the shape, size, and complexity of the molecules by which the ether is disturbed. Tyndall, Radiation, § 15. Most persons... are le able to visualise the features of intimate friends than those of persons of whom they have caught only a single glance. F. Galton , Inquiries into Human Faculty, p. 108. II. in trans. To call up a mental image or picture with a distinctne approaching actual vision. I find that a few persons can, by what they often describe as a kind of touch-sight, visualise at the same moment all round the image of a solid body. F. Galton , Inquiries into Human Faculty, p. 98. It is among uncivilised races that natural differences in the visualising faculty are most conspicuous. Many of them make carvings and rude illustrations, but only a few have the gift of carrying a picture in their mind's eye, judging by the completene and firmne of their designs, which show no trace of having been elaborated in that step-by-step manner which is characteristic of draughtsmen who are not natural artists. F. Galton , Inquiries into Human Faculty, p. 101. Also spelled visualise . visualizer (viz'ū-al-i-zėr), n . [ visualize + -er1 .] One who visualizes. Also spelled visualiser . Abnormally sensitive visualizers . Proc. Amer . Soc. Psych. Research , I. 295. visually (viz'ū-al-i), adv . In a visual manner; by sight; with reference to vision. These spectral images have only a subjective existence, though visually they have all the vividne of presentment which belongs to realities. Nature , XLI. 417. Vitaceæ (vi-ta'sē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Lindley, 1835), IMG:content-1899.png:[graphic] as, visual influences. - Primary visual centers, the lateral corpus geniculatum; the pulvinar and the anterior corpus quadrigeminum, in cells of which the fibers of the optic tract originate. - Visual angle, the angle formed by the intersection of two lines drawn from the extremi- ties of an object to the first nodal point of the eye.- Visual axis. See axisl . - Visual field, the extent of external world which is visible in any position of an eye. Visual line. Same as visual axis . - Visual plane, the plane including the visual lines of the two eyes. - Visual point, in persp ., a point in the horizontal line in which victual . found in the retina: same as rhodopsin. - Visual rays, lines of light imagined to come from the object to the eye. Visual white, the final product of the photochemical changes undergone by visual purple when exposed to the action of light. - Visual yellow, an intermediate stage of the pa age of visual purple to visual white under the action of light. visualisation, visualise, etc. See visualiza tion, etc. visuality (viz-ū-al'i-ti), n.; pl. visualities (-tiz). [ We have a pleasant visuality of an old summer afternoon in the Queen's Court two hundred years ago. Carlyle, Cromwell, i. 98.