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adjective

Apparent adj.

1.

Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view. "The moon... apparent queen."

2.

Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable. "It is apparent foul play."

3.

Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun. "To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship." "What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude."

Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon.

Apparent time. See Time.

Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive.

Synonyms: Visible; distinct; plain; obvious; clear; certain; evident; manifest; indubitable; notorious.

noun

Apparent n. An heir apparent. (Obs.) "I'll draw it (the sword) as apparent to the crown."

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Etymology of 'Apparent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Apparent" Quotes from Famous Books

... wholly. Discursiveness is not without its beauties. We believe in logic, but still it is pleasant, at times, to see a writer sport with his subject, to see him gallop at will, unconfined by the ring circle of strict severity. Nor is this all. Possibly the apparent discursiveness may be only the preliminary journeying by which we are to secure some new and startling view of the subject. Perhaps you may consider these initial movements needlessly protracted and fatiguing; but trust your guide; whatever your private opinion, at the time, may ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers, but for certain reasons, which will be fully apparent, I saw fit ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... fire immediately (Fig. 20 B). What I want you to understand is, that although I have in both these cases precisely the same chlorine and the same metal, nevertheless, that whilst the action of the chlorine on the lump of antimony was not very apparent, in the case of the powdered antimony the action was very energetic. Again, there is a lump of lead (Fig. 21 a). You would be very much astonished if the lead pipe that conveys the water through your houses caught fire spontaneously; ...

— The Story of a Tinder-box • Charles Meymott Tidy

... the first it was apparent to a trained eye that the young man was doomed. There was too much poison in his blood before, and his constitution was undermined by his reckless and dissolute life. All that was possible was done to relieve the sufferings and abate the fever of the patient. One ...

— The Sign Of The Red Cross • Evelyn Everett-Green

... For on the stage, in the play, in the part that was to have been hers, she beheld "Harriet" doing that part so well, and winning such lively approval, that doing it better would have distorted the play. Rouged and coifed to reduce her apparent age as much as Ramsey's was to have been increased, she was at all points so like what Ramsey would have been that the bulk of the audience had mistaken her for Ramsey and had made her more and more a favorite at each ...

— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

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