資料來源 : pyDict
視覺,先見之明,眼光,視力,幻想夢見,想象,顯示
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Vision \Vi"sion\, n. [OE. visioun, F. vision, fr. L. visio, from
videre, visum, to see: akin to Gr. ? to see, ? I know, and E.
wit. See {Wit}, v., and cf. {Advice}, {Clairvoyant}, {Envy},
{Evident}, {Provide}, {Revise}, {Survey}, {View}, {Visage},
{Visit}.]
1. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
Faith here is turned into vision there. --Hammond.
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. --Shak.
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. --Shak.
No dreams, but visions strange. --Sir P.
Sidney.
5. Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
--Locke.
{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}.
Vision \Vi"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Visioned}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Visioning}.]
To see in a vision; to dream.
For them no visioned terrors daunt, Their nights no
fancied specters haunt. --Sir W.
Scott.
資料來源 : WordNet®
vision
n 1: a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death"
2: the ability to see; the faculty of vision [syn: {sight}, {visual
sense}, {visual modality}]
3: the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged
from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual
sensation of intense light" [syn: {visual sensation}]
4: the formation of a mental image of something that is not
perceived as real and is not present to the senses;
"popular imagination created a world of demons";
"imagination reveals what the world could be" [syn: {imagination},
{imaginativeness}]
5: a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural
appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"