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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Apparent" Quotes from Famous Books

... an amateur, had rather startled some of the audience, and Loring hastened to explain that these were not real fireworks, but that they were contrivances made of colored glass, which were illuminated by the powerful lens of a lantern which was placed out of sight, and while the apparent pyrotechnic display would resemble fireworks of strange and grotesque designs, it would be absolutely without danger. He brought out some little bunches of bits of colored glass, hung them at some distance apart on a wire which was stretched across the stage just ...

— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton

... Manifested Logos, the Spirit moving on the Waters. Therefore all its emanations or creations are triple. The triple Light above and the triple Darkness below, force and matter, or spirit and matter, both owing their being and apparent opposition to the Mind, "alone ...

— Simon Magus • George Robert Stow Mead

... from the several States would be unimportant and immaterial, even under the proposed change, hence there would be no occasion for the change. The fact that this assumption is not true furnishes the basis for the alleged inequality in representation, and the apparent necessity for the change proposed. In addition to this it is a well-known fact that in several of the Southern States,—my own, Mississippi, among the number,—the Fifteenth Amendment to the National Constitution ...

— The Facts of Reconstruction • John R. Lynch

... the design or mischief in the event; and if I may give my opinion, they seemed to be under a blast from Heaven; for if we will not allow a visible curse to pursue visible crimes, how shall we reconcile the events of things with divine justice? It was certainly an apparent vengeance on their crime of mutiny and piracy that brought them to the state they were in; and as they shewed not the least remorse for the crime, but added new villanies to it, such as particularly that piece of monstrous cruelty of wounding a poor slave because he did not, or ...

— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe

... the baronet a player, and a lady, to whom the manly and athletic form of the supposed tragedian had given apparent pleasure, assured him she had never heard the passage more impressively delivered, and that certainly, in the character of the Scottish Usurper, there was no doubt of his becoming to Mr. ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

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