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 |
| chart | a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea |
naval chart
navigational chart
pilot chart | a chart for a navigator showing the prevailing meteorological and hydrographic and navigational conditions |
| Snellen chart | display consisting of a printed card with letters and numbers in lines of decreasing size, used to test visual acuity |
visual display unit
VDU | (British) British term for video display |
weather map
weather chart | (meteorology) a map showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region |
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 |
| calorie chart | a list of foods and information about their caloric content |
flow chart
flowchart
flow diagram
flow sheet | a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system |
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 |
| chart | a visual display of information |
| organization chart | a chart showing the lines of responsibility between departments of a large organization |
| color chart | a chart displaying colors |
bar chart
bar graph | a chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities |
| eye chart | a chart that is read from a fixed distance, used as a test of vision |
| flip chart | a chart with several sheets hinged at the top, sheets can be flipped over to present information sequentially |
| pie chart | a circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole |
| star chart | a chart showing the relative positions of the stars in a particular part of the sky |
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 |