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Visibility

noun

Quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye. Synonym: visibleness. Antonym: invisibility.

Degree of exposure to public notice. Synonym: profile.

Capability of providing a clear unobstructed view.

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"Visibility" Quotes from Famous Books

... the hands, face, and upper portions of the body—while those portions which had become entirely automatic and unconscious in their activity would have least light—being physiological to the point almost of being mechanical. If this "light" corresponded in any way to visibility, therefore, it would only be natural to suppose that the face and upper portions of the phantasmal figure should be more or less distinctly visible, to one at all sensitive to such impressions, while the lower portions of the figure would fade into practical invisibility,—owing ...

— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington

... switch move, as though automatically. But no, for the dwarf's hand was on it now. Visibility ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various

... the process is carried further. Thick, broad, dark lines in the red end of the spectrum announce the appearance of compounds of carbon, and a still lower fall of temperature. The veil is growing thicker; the life is ebbing from the great frame. Then the star sinks below the range of visibility, and one would think that we can follow the dying world no farther. Fortunately, in the case of Algol and some thirty or forty other stars, an extinct sun betrays its existence by flitting across the light of a luminous sun, and recent research has made it probable that the ...

— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe

... then separated the projectile from the satellite was estimated at about two hundred leagues. Under these conditions, as regards the visibility of the details of the disc, the travelers were farther from the moon than are the inhabitants of earth ...

— Jules Verne's Classic Books • Jules Verne

... the former, which will require far greater degrees of compression and consequently of pain to make them visible; whereas the latter are feculent and gross, and so nearer allied to palpable existences, and more easily reducible to appearance and visibility.'[82] ...

— The Superstitions of Witchcraft • Howard Williams

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