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# visible

«visible» in Mova's school dictionary: **able to be seen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Visible means able to be seen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visible/#m1)

2) Visible can also mean easy to notice or obvious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visible/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, visible light is the light our eyes can see, made of the colours of the rainbow; some things, like germs and air, are not visible to the eye. In safety, wearing bright or reflective clothes makes you visible to drivers at night. Phrases: «visible to the naked eye», «clearly visible», «make yourself visible», «visible light».

### examples

- Wear a reflective vest so you are visible to drivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visible/#x1)
- The moon was visible in the daytime sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visible/#x2)
- Germs are too small to be visible without a microscope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visible/#x3)
- The ship was just visible on the horizon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visible/#x4)
- Visible light is split into colours by a prism. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visible/#x5)
- Her scar is hardly visible now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visible/#x6)
- It was a moonlight night; everything was visible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visible/#x7)

### note

Adjective; spelt -ible, not -able. Opposite: «invisible». Noun: «visibility» (how far you can see, e.g. in fog).

### In the corpora

- [Mould sends threads deep into soft food, so cutting off the visible spot does not make soft food like strawberries safe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/12/)
- [The Moon is often visible in the daytime sky, depending on its phase.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «visible» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visible/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.