approach approaching coming | the act of drawing spatially closer to something, the hunter's approach scattered the geese |
landing approach | the approach to a landing field by an airplane |
groundontrolled approach GCA | aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar |
approach approach shot | a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green, he lost the hole when his approach rolled over the green |
approach attack plan of attack | ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation, his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons, an attack on inflation, his plan of attack was misguided |
access approach | a way of entering or leaving, he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge |
approach trench communication trench | a trench that provides protected passage between the rear and front lines of a defensive position |
visual display unit VDU | (British) British term for video display |
appearance visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing |
approach | a close approximation, the nearest approach to genius |
visual property | an attribute of vision |
visual range | distance at which a given standard object can be seen with the unaided eye |
approach approaching coming | the temporal property of becoming nearer in time, the approach of winter |
visual system | the sensory system for vision |
visual cell | one of the cells of the retina that is sensitive to light |
visual area visual cortex | the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus |
striate cortex striate area first visual area area of Brodmann Brodmann's are | the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision |
sight vision visual sense visual modality | the ability to see, the visual faculty |
acuity visual acuity sharp-sightedness | sharpness of vision, the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) |
visual perception beholding seeing | perception by means of the eyes |
visual space | the visual perception of space |
vision visual sensation | the perceptual experience of seeing, the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision, he had a visual sensation of intense light |
visual percept visual image | a percept that arises from the eyes, an image in the visual system |
visual field field of vision field of regard | all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment |
visual image visualization visualisation | a mental image that is similar to a visual perception |
sight gag visual joke | a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie) |
visual communication | communication that relies on vision |
visual signal | a signal that involves visual communication |
overture advance approach feeler | a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others, she rejected his advances |
approach approaching | the event of one object coming closer to another |
traffic pattern approach pattern pattern | the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport, the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded, they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted |
approach path approach glide path glide slope | the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing |
visual aphasia alexia word blindness | inability to perceive written words |
visual agnosia | inability to recognize or interpret objects in the visual field |
visual hallucination | illusory visual perception |
visual impairment visual defect vision defect visual disorder | impairment of the sense of sight |
visual purple rhodopsin retinal purple | a red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates, dissociates into retinene by light |
approach | make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion, I was approached by the President to serve as his adviser in foreign matters |
approach come near | come near in time, Winter is approaching, approaching old age |
approach near come on go up draw near draw close come near | move towards, We were approaching our destination, They are drawing near, The enemy army came nearer and nearer |
set about go about approach | begin to deal with, approach a task, go about a difficult problem, approach a new project |
border on approach | come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character, This borders on discrimination!, His playing approaches that of Horowitz |
ocular visual | visible, be sure of it, give me the ocular proof- Shakespeare, a visual presentation, a visual image |
ocular optic optical visual | relating to or using sight, ocular inspection, an optical illusion, visual powers, visual navigation |