contact | close interaction, they kept in daily contact, they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings |
eye contact | contact that occurs when two people look directly at each other, a teacher should make eye contact with the students |
contact physical contact | the act of touching physically, her fingers came in contact with the light switch |
contact sport | a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players |
contact tangency | (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact, they forget to solder the contacts |
contact contact lens | a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication |
contact print | a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative |
electrical contact | contact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another |
visual display unit VDU | (British) British term for video display |
wiper wiper arm contact arm | contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet |
appearance visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing |
visual property | an attribute of vision |
visual range | distance at which a given standard object can be seen with the unaided eye |
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 |
liaison link contact inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
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 |
eye contact | a meeting of the eyes between two people that expresses meaningful nonverbal communication, it was a mere glance, but the eye contact was enough to tell her that he was desperate to leave |
contact touch | a communicative interaction, the pilot made contact with the base, he got in touch with his colleagues |
contact impinging striking | the physical coming together of two or more things, contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull |
contact middleman | a person who is in a position to give you special assistance, he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor |
catalysis contact action | acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction, of the topcommodity chemicals,are created directly by catalysis and another are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced |
visual aphasia alexia word blindness | inability to perceive written words |
visual agnosia | inability to recognize or interpret objects in the visual field |
contact dermatitis | a delayed type of allergic reaction of the skin resulting from skin contact with a specific allergen (such as poison ivy) |
visual hallucination | illusory visual perception |
contact | the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity, litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid |
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 |
establish base ground found | use as a basis for, found on, base a claim on some observation |
prove demonstrate establish show shew | establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment, The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound, The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture |
lay down establish make d | institute, enact, or establish, make laws |
reach get through get hold of contact | be in or establish communication with, Our advertisements reach millions, He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia |
touch adjoin meet contact | be in direct physical contact with, make contact, The two buildings touch, Their hands touched, The wire must not contact the metal cover, The surfaces contact at this point |
install instal set up establish | place, Her manager had set her up at the Ritz |
establish found plant constitute institute | set up or lay the groundwork for, establish a new department |
establish give | bring about, The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth |
build establish | build or establish something abstract, build a reputation |