visual
noun/ˈvɪʒuəl/
/ˈvɪʒuəl/
- a picture, map, piece of film, etc. used to make an article or a talk easier to understand or more interesting
- He used striking visuals to get his point across.
Word Originlate Middle English (originally describing a beam imagined to proceed from the eye and make vision possible): from late Latin visualis, from Latin visus ‘sight’, from videre ‘to see’. The current noun sense dates from the 1950s.Want to learn more?
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