visual

comparative more visual · superlative most visual · alternative obsolete rare visuall

1. Related to or affecting the vision.

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   Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.

   2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7

2. obsoleteThat can be seen; visible.

plural visuals · alternative obsolete rare visuall

1. Any element of something that depends on sight.

   It wasn't the first time I pulled an all-nighter, but normally I was coming off an acid trip and still seeing visuals dancing around in my head.

   2016, S. C. Sterling, Teenage Degenerate, page 5

2. An image; a picture; a graphic.
3. in pluralAll the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
4. advertisingA preliminary sketch.
5. entertainmentAny element of a show done by a marching band besides the marching and playing of instruments.

   The visual where the trombone all threw their instruments into the air looked good.

6. pluralslangusuallyA hallucination perceived as seen by the eyes, such as from psilocybin.