{
    "term": "visual",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "of or connected with seeing or sight",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **visual arts**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The building makes a tremendous visual impact."
                },
                {
                    "text": "dramatic visual effects"
                },
                {
                    "text": "visual artists"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have a very good visual memory."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A reader creates visual images of the characters in a novel."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The photographs she takes are a visual record of her travels."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company relied on simple visual inspections of the tunnels to confirm their safety."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A driverless vehicle identifies visual cues on the road, such as other cars or traffic signs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The website will be very visual."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the film's unique visual style"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvɪʒuəl/",
                "audio": "vi/visual/visual__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvɪʒuəl/",
                "audio": "vi/visual/visual__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 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."
}