VISIBILITY


Meaning of VISIBILITY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

good

The seats are firm, and the driving position offers good all-round visibility .

Higher seats offer better visibility and are relatively easy to get into and out of, he notes.

Rescuers said there was good visibility with clear skies but the freezing level was down to 2,000 feet.

We set a course for Out Skerries in good visibility and fairly calm seas.

great

In both countries, users of services have achieved much greater political visibility .

This is because the areas of women's greatest visibility in sociology tend also to contain examples of the most rampant sexism.

Changes don't happen overnight but the feedback I get is there's now greater visibility of managers and supervisors.

Summer flows, of course, are noticeably smaller, offer much less dilution and greater visibility to any discoloured water.

For a group of subjects who have been so hidden, this greater visibility is valuable.

high

Large umbrellas offer high visibility and are often branded.

The advantage of coupons is that they give products high visibility .

Being in a minority brings with it high visibility .

If the stations are in different time zones, the work can be grueling, albeit with high visibility and pay.

Delivery performance is particularly poignant and assumes a high visibility .

But high expectations and high visibility have a price.

The key political point about cruise is its high visibility .

Both have a high visibility silver paint finish which protects against knocks and abrasion.

low

Viewed in terms of agency theory, the problem is essentially one of the low visibility of management effort.

The president holds tremendous advantages as the incumbent, partly because his campaign apparatus has low visibility .

Vegetation at the intersections is kept low to aid visibility .

Lesser parties, including opposition parties, have a much lower visibility .

poor

If poor visibility in itself is rejected as a means of achieving speed reduction through anxiety, other measures are necessary.

Radio and television commentators suggested it occurred because of poor visibility in the rain and fog along the border.

Deeply apologetic. Poor visibility , mistaken identification.

Then the eyes, which have poor visibility underwater, can take over.

He says the crossing patrol has poor visibility because of parked cars and the lollipop lady has to weave in between stationary vehicles.

On the final pitches the topo proves to be hopelessly inaccurate and route-finding difficult in the poor visibility .

Many of them died because drivers simply didn't see them in the dark or poor visibility .

Avoid strong tides, offshore winds, poor visibility or sailing in the dark.

■ VERB

give

He thought that they would stay there, the track giving them visibility and line of fire.

The advantage of coupons is that they give products high visibility .

It was now necessary to give Klepner visibility in front of Cocello and the top brass.

The first light of day began to filter through grey clouds above, giving visibility that rose steadily to three hundred yards.

The balance is covered by an acrylic housing which gives normal visibility and access to all controls.

improve

The two slip roads form T-junctions with Lasswade Road which has been realigned locally to improve visibility .

Instead it was filtered and chemically treated to improve visibility .

increase

Then it occurs to us that we could raise the sails to increase our visibility .

It is now realised that by giving an artist the right kind of support, a dealer can increase their visibility enormously.

In the failing light with the wind increasing , the visibility was diminishing rapidly.

reduce

Beware of snow showers, because they can reduce visibility to a few yards, making a safe landing impossible.

Rolls of thunder joined the gunfire now, like giant echoes, and it began to rain, reducing visibility .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Conditions are perfect for the yacht race; there is a light wind and visibility is good.

Fog has reduced visibility to under 20 metres.

Most modern planes can land in zero visibility .

Planes must have at least a half-mile of visibility to land.

Poor visibility made skiing extremely hazardous.

The article in the paper meant good visibility for the company.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I saw nothing of the scenery; visibility was down to fifty yards.

Large umbrellas offer high visibility and are often branded.

Radio and television commentators suggested it occurred because of poor visibility in the rain and fog along the border.

The visibility was atrocious, perhaps forty yards, and I could see nothing.

The advantage of coupons is that they give products high visibility .

The conditions were horrible, the visibility poor, but the traffic was light.

The storm is terrible now, the snow thicker, the visibility worse.

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