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adjective

Invisible adj.

Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible. Specifically:

(a)

Not visible due to an inherent property, such as lack of color; as, the invisible air; invisible ink;

(b)

Hidden from view; out of sight;

(c)

Not perceptible due to lack of light;

(d)

Too small or too distant to be perceived; as, people on the ground invisible at cruising altitude. "To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works."

Hidden from the public; as, invisible transactions.

Imperceptible to the mind; as, differences invisible to most observers.

Invisible bird (Zool.), a small, shy singing bird (Myadestes sibilons), of St. Vincent Islands.

Invisible green, a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mistaken for it.

noun

Invisible n.

An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.

A Rosicrucian; so called because avoiding declaration of his craft. (Obs.)

(Eccl. Hist.) One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church.

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"Invisible" Quotes from Famous Books

... whose slightest scratch meant death, could strike down every man of this expedition without even a wound in return; for of what avail were high-power guns, automatic pistols, and machetes against invisible enemies? Yet there was assurance in Lourenco's confident air, and reassurance in the thought that these tribemen would be unlikely to assail a band avowedly on its way to visit their chief. Besides—Knowlton smiled grimly—even if ...

— The Pathless Trail • Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel

... to the scales shed, weighed, and then shoved upon a section of track that, after they were chained, sharply tilted and discharged the loads into a pit from which the endless belt of a cane carrier wound into the invisible roller crushers. The heavy air was charged with the smooth oiled tumult of machinery, the blast whistles of varied signals, and the harshness of escaping steam. Other houses, smaller than Daniel's but for the rest resembling it, were strung along the open—the dwellings ...

— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer

... the galley and slammed the door. The remainder of the male Brookses made two jumps to the coal bins and began burrowing into the coal, and the three non-Brooks members of the crew dived into openings between the small piles of cargo stuff and tried to become invisible. When the pirates clambered aboard the Silver Star they seemed to be boarding a deserted vessel. They worked quickly and thoroughly. Piece by piece they threw the cargo of the Silver Sides into the motor-boat until they uncovered the three members ...

— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler

... fern, taller than himself if he had been upright; and but that, by rolling over and over in the turbulence of his grief, he had flattened a large space down to the edge of the forest brook near which he reclined, he would have remained invisible in his lair. The tears in his eyes, and the passionate utterances of his voice, contrasted strangely with a round russetin face, which seemed fortified by beef and ale against all possible furrows ...

— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock

... was already far gone; it was already dead. The invisible sun was sinking down into the night. It was the magic hour when dreams and visions come mounting from the soul, saddened by the labors of the day, still, musing drowsily. All is silent, only the beating of the ...

— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland

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