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noun

Vision n.

1.

The act of seeing external objects; actual sight. "Faith here is turned into vision there."

2.

(Physiol.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.

3.

That which is seen; an object of sight.

4.

Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah. "The baseless fabric of this vision." "No dreams, but visions strange."

5.

Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.

Arc of vision (Astron.), the arc which measures the least distance from the sun at which, when the sun is below the horizon, a star or planet emerging from his rays becomes visible.

Beatific vision (Theol.), the immediate sight of God in heaven.

Direct vision (Opt.), vision when the image of the object falls directly on the yellow spot (see under Yellow); also, vision by means of rays which are not deviated from their original direction.

Field of vision, field of view. See under Field.

Indirect vision (Opt.), vision when the rays of light from an object fall upon the peripheral parts of the retina.

Reflected vision, or Refracted vision, vision by rays reflected from mirrors, or refracted by lenses or prisms, respectively.

Vision purple. (Physiol.) See Visual purple, under Visual.

verb

Vision v. t. (past & past part. visioned; pres. part. visioning) To see in a vision; to dream. "For them no visioned terrors daunt, Their nights no fancied specters haunt."

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Etymology of 'Vision'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vision" Quotes from Famous Books

... were not there; while a strange and pitiless mirror with square feet, which stood across one corner of the room, cleared for itself a site I had not looked to find tenanted in the quiet surroundings of my normal field of vision: that room in which my mind, forcing itself for hours on end to leave its moorings, to elongate itself upwards so as to take on the exact shape of the room, and to reach to the summit of that monstrous funnel, had passed so many anxious nights while my body lay stretched ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... being hard pressed, would not withdraw his men. The stars were very bright, and objects were distinguishable at about thirty yards distance; perhaps further by Harry, who was particularly clear of vision, that being the reason, possibly, of his fine shooting. The Arabs got closer to the rocks, amongst which the outpost was situated, with sentries at intervals connecting it with the square. Harry felt savage with thirst, fatigue, and this aggravating annoyance, and was strongly tempted to try and ...

— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough

... Wilson, now eighteen, was transferred to Oxford as a Gentleman Commoner of Magdalen. And surely never lighted on the Oxford orb so glorious a vision, or such a bewildering ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863 • Various

... far then to seek the reason for his fall from grace, his utter failure as a Republican candidate for the presidency—it was his generosity, his innate humanity, and his extraordinary breadth and clarity of vision. ...

— Terribly Intimate Portraits • Noel Coward

... refute False accusation hast contemn'd the course Of the All-Merciful. Why shouldst thou strive With Him whose might of wisdom ne'er unveils Its mysteries to man? Yet doth He deign Such hints and precepts as the docile heart May comprehend. Sometimes in vision'd sleep, His Spirit hovereth o'er the plastic mind Sealing instruction. Or a different voice Its sterner teaching tries. His vigor droops, Strong pain amid the multitude of bones Doth revel, till his soul abhorreth meat. His fair flesh wastes, and downward ...

— Man of Uz, and Other Poems • Lydia Howard Sigourney

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