What's the difference between intelligibility and legibility?

Intelligibility


Definition:

  • () The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
  • (2) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
  • (3) A definite relationship between intelligence level and the type of muscle disease was found.
  • (4) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
  • (5) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (6) MI6 introduced him to the Spanish intelligence service and in 2006 he travelled to Madrid.
  • (7) Intelligence scores are also related to feeding patterns, with those exclusively breastfed for 4-9 months displaying the highest scores in relation to their age.
  • (8) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
  • (9) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • (10) Groups were similar with respect to age, sex, school experience, family income, housing, primary language spoken, and nonverbal intelligence.
  • (11) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
  • (12) He believes the intelligence and security committee (ISC) has enough powers to do its job.
  • (13) The eight senators, including the incoming ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, wrote to Barack Obama to request he declassify relevant intelligence on the election.
  • (14) The 83 survivors of a consecutive series of children with spina bifida cystica, born between 1963 and 1971 and treated non-selectively since birth, were assessed by intelligence and developmental testing.
  • (15) In addition to the threat of industrial espionage to sustain this position, there is an inherent risk of Chinese equipment being used for intelligence purposes.
  • (16) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
  • (17) Gibson's conclusions and the question he says now need to be address will make uncomfortable reading for former heads of the UK's intelligence agencies and for ministers of the last Labour government.
  • (18) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.
  • (19) And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball.
  • (20) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.

Legibility


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being legible; legibleness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clinical data thus entered is highly organized, easily legible and retrievable in many ways.
  • (2) It is simple in its application, since the connections can be brought in easily legible graphs.
  • (3) The screen is sharp and clear: websites and book text are easily legible, videos crisp and colourful.
  • (4) is renowed for karyological legible, while the cytologic method (Papanicolau, Shorr, haematoxylon-eosine, etc.)
  • (5) Kirk Douglas wrote to me about his stroke in a spidery, half-legible hand.
  • (6) One disadvantage of using high-contrast letters as test objects when measuring visual acuity is the fact that they are not of equal legibility.
  • (7) Legibility of head-fixed displays in some motion environments is partially dependent upon visual suppression of the vestibuloocular reflex (VOR).
  • (8) Writing speed, legibility ratings, errors in writing and in the secondary auditory task, and a derived measure of the average number of characters held in short-term memory during each sample ("planning unit size") were the dependent variables.
  • (9) Thus, according to DIN and ISO criteria, the legibility of the Kolt-test is not equivalent to the standard Landolt ring.
  • (10) Needless to say, there are points available for neatness – several researchers have suggested that legible work is graded more favourably than messier counterparts.
  • (11) "The legibility will not improve, but rather noticeably worsen, because each pupil will join up the letters however they fancy.
  • (12) The alternative is to think that every part of the city is worth visiting and that the whole city should be open and legible, not just privileging certain sectors.” After patiently listening to all this, a smartphone user might ask: well, who needs physical wayfinding systems any more, when we have technology?
  • (13) Appropriate methods minimize technical difficulties and consistently yield legible SSEPs.
  • (14) The Legible Cities movement takes its inspiration from the American social geographer Kevin A Lynch, who published the seminal book The Image of the City in 1960, introducing the concept of the “legibility” of urban space.
  • (15) The tablet is solidly built, with a clear and sharp screen that makes website and book text easily legible and videos crisp and colourful.
  • (16) The examination findings should, therefore, be legible, readily understandable and complete.
  • (17) Of the total of 968 discrete skeletons excavated, 367 had legible coffin plates giving details of name, age, sex, and date of death.
  • (18) Clinically relevant reports are consistent, reliable, and legible.
  • (19) We constructed a set of objective standards and used them to assess the legibility of warnings on a sample of 37 billboards in Perth, Western Australia.
  • (20) But there are questions to be asked about who gets to write the legible city, points out Leo Hollis , urban theorist and author of Cities Are Good For You.