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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
visibility
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
▪ The seats are firm, and the driving position offers good all-round visibility.
▪ Higher seats offer better visibility and are relatively easy to get into and out of, he notes.
▪ Rescuers said there was good visibility with clear skies but the freezing level was down to 2,000 feet.
▪ We set a course for Out Skerries in good visibility and fairly calm seas.
great
▪ In both countries, users of services have achieved much greater political visibility.
▪ This is because the areas of women's greatest visibility in sociology tend also to contain examples of the most rampant sexism.
▪ Changes don't happen overnight but the feedback I get is there's now greater visibility of managers and supervisors.
▪ Summer flows, of course, are noticeably smaller, offer much less dilution and greater visibility to any discoloured water.
▪ For a group of subjects who have been so hidden, this greater visibility is valuable.
high
▪ Large umbrellas offer high visibility and are often branded.
▪ The advantage of coupons is that they give products high visibility.
▪ Being in a minority brings with it high visibility.
▪ If the stations are in different time zones, the work can be grueling, albeit with high visibility and pay.
▪ Delivery performance is particularly poignant and assumes a high visibility.
▪ But high expectations and high visibility have a price.
▪ The key political point about cruise is its high visibility.
▪ Both have a high visibility silver paint finish which protects against knocks and abrasion.
low
▪ Viewed in terms of agency theory, the problem is essentially one of the low visibility of management effort.
▪ The president holds tremendous advantages as the incumbent, partly because his campaign apparatus has low visibility.
▪ Vegetation at the intersections is kept low to aid visibility.
▪ Lesser parties, including opposition parties, have a much lower visibility.
poor
▪ If poor visibility in itself is rejected as a means of achieving speed reduction through anxiety, other measures are necessary.
▪ Radio and television commentators suggested it occurred because of poor visibility in the rain and fog along the border.
▪ Deeply apologetic. Poor visibility, mistaken identification.
▪ Then the eyes, which have poor visibility underwater, can take over.
▪ He says the crossing patrol has poor visibility because of parked cars and the lollipop lady has to weave in between stationary vehicles.
▪ On the final pitches the topo proves to be hopelessly inaccurate and route-finding difficult in the poor visibility.
▪ Many of them died because drivers simply didn't see them in the dark or poor visibility.
▪ Avoid strong tides, offshore winds, poor visibility or sailing in the dark.
■ VERB
give
▪ He thought that they would stay there, the track giving them visibility and line of fire.
▪ The advantage of coupons is that they give products high visibility.
▪ It was now necessary to give Klepner visibility in front of Cocello and the top brass.
▪ The first light of day began to filter through grey clouds above, giving visibility that rose steadily to three hundred yards.
▪ The balance is covered by an acrylic housing which gives normal visibility and access to all controls.
improve
▪ The two slip roads form T-junctions with Lasswade Road which has been realigned locally to improve visibility.
▪ Instead it was filtered and chemically treated to improve visibility.
increase
▪ Then it occurs to us that we could raise the sails to increase our visibility.
▪ It is now realised that by giving an artist the right kind of support, a dealer can increase their visibility enormously.
▪ In the failing light with the wind increasing, the visibility was diminishing rapidly.
reduce
▪ Beware of snow showers, because they can reduce visibility to a few yards, making a safe landing impossible.
▪ Rolls of thunder joined the gunfire now, like giant echoes, and it began to rain, reducing visibility.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Conditions are perfect for the yacht race; there is a light wind and visibility is good.
▪ Fog has reduced visibility to under 20 metres.
▪ Most modern planes can land in zero visibility.
▪ Planes must have at least a half-mile of visibility to land.
▪ Poor visibility made skiing extremely hazardous.
▪ The article in the paper meant good visibility for the company.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I saw nothing of the scenery; visibility was down to fifty yards.
▪ Large umbrellas offer high visibility and are often branded.
▪ Radio and television commentators suggested it occurred because of poor visibility in the rain and fog along the border.
▪ The visibility was atrocious, perhaps forty yards, and I could see nothing.
▪ The advantage of coupons is that they give products high visibility.
▪ The conditions were horrible, the visibility poor, but the traffic was light.
▪ The storm is terrible now, the snow thicker, the visibility worse.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Visibility

Visibility \Vis`i*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. visibilitas: cf. F. visibilit['e].] The quality or state of being visible.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
visibility

c.1400, "condition of being visible," from Late Latin visibilitatem (nominative visibilitas) "condition of being seen; conspicuousness," from visibilis (see visible). Meaning "range of vision under given conditions" is from 1914. Sense of "prominence, fame, public attention" is recorded from 1958.

Wiktionary
visibility

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being visible. 2 (context countable English) The degree to which things may be seen.

WordNet
visibility

  1. n. quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye; "low visibility caused by fog" [syn: visibleness] [ant: invisibility]

  2. degree of exposure to public notice; "that candidate does not have sufficient visibility to win an election"; "he prefers a low profile" [syn: profile]

  3. capability of providing a clear unobstructed view; "a windshield with good visibility"

Wikipedia
Visibility

In meteorology, visibility is a measure of the distance at which an object or light can be clearly discerned. It is reported within surface weather observations and METAR code either in meters or statute miles, depending upon the country. Visibility affects all forms of traffic: roads, sailing and aviation. Meteorological visibility refers to transparency of air: in dark, meteorological visibility is still the same as in daylight for the same air.

Visibility (disambiguation)

Visibility may refer to:

  • Visual perception
  • Visibility in meteorology, a measure of the distance at which an object or light can be seen
  • A measure of turbidity in water quality control
  • Interferometric visibility, which quantifies interference contrast in optics
  • Visibility (corporation), a company which markets ERP software
  • Visibility (geometry), a geometric abstraction of real-life visibility
  • The reach of information hiding, in computing

Visible may refer to

  • Visible spectrum, light which can be seen by the human eye
  • Visible (album) 1985 album of Canadian band CANO
Visibility (geometry)

Visibility is a mathematical abstraction of the real-life notion of visibility.

Given a set of obstacles in the Euclidean space, two points in the space are said to be visible to each other, if the line segment that joins them does not intersect any obstacles. (In the Earth's atmosphere light follows a slightly curved path that is not perfectly predictable, complicating the calculation of actual visibility.)

Computation of visibility is among the basic problems in computational geometry and has applications in computer graphics, motion planning, and other areas.

Visibility (corporation)

Visibility develops Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, which targets small to mid-sized Engineer-to-Order (ETO), Make-to-Order (MTO), Mixed-Mode and Project-Oriented Manufacturing companies.

Usage examples of "visibility".

It was known that the Germans were rapidly bringing up new batteries north of the Ancre while low visibility postponed the day of the attack.

Textures rippled into visibility: a mottled striation of greens in the annelid segments, facets in the trilateral chameleon eyes.

The head pushed forward, bringing into visibility thickly maned shoulders, forefeet with sharply split hooves as dreadfully bedabbled as the horns.

The tension caused by his fugitive status and the high visibility of his crimes gives the murderer a sense of desperation.

On the fifth day past the Kadarin, they camped on the lower slope of the road up into Scaravel, after daylong travel in thin flurrying snow that cut visibility to a few horse-lengths ahead.

Pullings was obliged to relay his orders, but it was with real satisfaction that he saw the Dryad steer south and the Polyphemus north until they were spread out so that in line abreast the three of them could survey the great part of the channel - a sparkling day, warm in spite of the wind, a truly Mediterranean day at last with splendid visibility, white clouds racing across a perfect sky, their shadows showing purple on a sea royal-blue where it was not white: an absurd day to have a cold on.

As the smoke began to thin, restoring visibility to the center of the great reception hall, Boba Fett took his gloved hand away from the control pad on his opposite forearm.

As it was they had to settle for thin clouds gusting over Diranol, subduing its red lambency to a sourceless candle-glow which reduced ordinary visibility to a few hundred metres.

If it is objected that the sun is light entire, this would only be a proof of our assertion: no other visible form will contain light which must, then, have no other property than that of visibility, and in fact all other visible objects are something more than light alone.

Cygni B was a bright, orangish fire in the right half of his visibility.

A mountain which seems very close, given the sharpness of visibility in the clear air, may actually be forty pasangs in the distance.

Instantly an alarm sounded, and a sudden shower of phenolic disinfectant drenched the whole lab, sending up clouds of mist and reducing the visibility to zero.

When , the full force of the storm flowed over them, the world turned dark and gray, visibility dropped to a few spans, and the stupid pack scrats obstinately stopped and refused to move, even under spear-point prods.

But because it was possible to know and to say only within a taxonomic area of visibility, the knowledge of plants was bound to prove more extensive than that of animals.

On the one hand, he was conservative architecturally, preferring Gothic buttresses as a means of support, and his attempt to raise the buttresses of the tribunes may have been not only out of concern for visibility but also an attempt to use the tribunes and buttresses as supporting members for the dome.