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Invisible   /ɪnvˈɪzəbəl/   Listen
adjective
Invisible  adj.  
1.
Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible. Specifically:
(a)
Not visible due to an inherent property, such as lack of color; as, the invisible air; invisible ink;
(b)
Hidden from view; out of sight;
(c)
Not perceptible due to lack of light;
(d)
Too small or too distant to be perceived; as, people on the ground invisible at cruising altitude. "To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works."
2.
Hidden from the public; as, invisible transactions.
3.
Imperceptible to the mind; as, differences invisible to most observers.
Invisible bird (Zool.), a small, shy singing bird (Myadestes sibilons), of St. Vincent Islands.
Invisible green, a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mistaken for it.



noun
Invisible  n.  
1.
An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.
2.
A Rosicrucian; so called because avoiding declaration of his craft. (Obs.)
3.
(Eccl. Hist.) One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church.






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"Invisible" Quotes from Famous Books



... to excel it by a great measure; and that not only in painting and in the use of colour, under which title are comprised all forms, and all bodies upright or not upright, palpable or impalpable, visible or invisible, but also in the highest perfection of bodies in the round, with the point of his chisel. And from a plant so beautiful and so fruitful, through his labours, there have already spread branches so many and so noble, that, besides having ...
— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo • Giorgio Vasari

... How awful! The little bells of the brain are ringing in your ears; you hear nothing else—not even a sigh of air—not even the echo of a drop of water falling from the roof. The guide triumphs in your look of amazement and awe; he falls to work on certain old wooden ruins, to you, yet invisible, and builds a brace or two of fires, by the aid of which you begin to have a better conception of the scene around you. You are in the vestibule or ante-chamber, to which the spacious entrance of the Cave, and the narrow passage ...
— Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 - By a Visiter • Alexander Clark Bullitt

... they passed through the Witte Poort, he was at her side again and chatting to her, but although she replied courteously enough, he felt that an invisible barrier had arisen between them. Yes, she had read his secret heart; it was as though she had been a party to his thoughts when he stood by the bridge this afternoon designing plans for the taking of Leyden, and half wishing that ...
— Lysbeth - A Tale Of The Dutch • H. Rider Haggard

... but that hour and another had passed and yet we watched for the first change. Without a breeze our chances of overhauling the stranger were gone. Only a white speck like the wing of a gull now marked her whereabouts on the edge of the horizon, and in another hour she would be invisible even ...
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various

... of the invisible realities of another world, of inward religion, of the work of God upon a poor sinner's heart. I am now talking of a matter of great importance, my dear hearers; you are all concerned in it, your souls are concerned in it, your eternal salvation is concerned in it. You may be all ...
— The world's great sermons, Volume 3 - Massillon to Mason • Grenville Kleiser


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