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[ adjective ] clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses
Examples "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields" "evident hostility" "manifest disapproval" "patent advantages" "made his meaning plain" "in plain view" Used in print (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)Mantle , it 's apparent , resented Casey_Stengel 's attempts to push and prod him into the perfection the veteran manager saw as a thrilling possibility . (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Your ear takes you into the ensemble , and you may well become aware of instrumental details which previously were apparent only in the score . (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)it is apparent from the above and from experimental evidence that the cooling requirements for the anode of free_burning arcs are large compared with those for the cathode . (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)Although there were only four fluids tested , it was apparent that there were two distinct types . (Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)But when he was finally through , their scorn was made apparent . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] appearing as such but not necessarily so
Synonyms Examples "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent" "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies" "the ostensible truth of their theories" "his seeming honesty" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)The wife , Amra , and her lover are both savagely portrayed , she as incarnate sensuality , `` voluptuous '' and `` indolent '' , possibly `` a mischief maker '' , with `` a kind of luxurious cunning '' to set against her apparent simplicity , her `` bird like brain '' . (Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)The concept of apparent black-body temperature is used to describe the radiation received from the moon and the planets . The apparent black-body disk temperature is the temperature which must be assumed for the black_body in_order_that the intensity of its radiation should equal that of the observed radiation . The use of this concept does not specify the origin of the radiation , and only if the planet really radiates as a black_body , will the apparent black-body temperature correspond to the physical temperature of the emitting material . (A. N. Nagaraj and L. M. Black, "Localization of...)The concentration and apparent localization of the WTV antigen in pseudophloem tissue of the tumor may indicate that the virus preferentially multiplies in the phloem and may need to be directly placed in this tissue in_order_to infect plants . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] readily apparent to the eye
Examples "angry for no apparent reason" "had no visible means of support" Used in print (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)It is presumed that this negative head was associated with some geometric factor of the assembly , since different readings were obtained with the same fluid and the only apparent difference was the assembly and disassembly of the apparatus . Related terms |
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