(a.) Capable of being read or deciphered; distinct to the eye; plain; -- used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript.
(a.) Capable of being discovered or understood by apparent marks or indications; as, the thoughts of men are often legible in their countenances.
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?
(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.
Salient
Definition:
(v. i.) Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
(v. i.) Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
(v. i.) Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
(v. i.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.
(v. i.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
(a.) A salient angle or part; a projection.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to this explanation, aspects of the situation are phenomenologically more salient for actors, whereas characteristics of the actor and his behavior are more salient for observers.
(2) The Nurses Evaluation Rating Scale (NERS) consists of 16 items designed to capture salient dimensions of psychopathology and nursing care requirements for psychiatric patients.
(3) Salient features are reviewed, mostly complications and malignant degeneration.
(4) The salient features of 24 cases of AIDS reported in Japan were summarized.
(5) This letter-writer argues that the salient action of mood elevation is a result of the supplemental pyridoxine (vitamin B) which ameliorates the deficiency induced by oral contraceptive use that leads to depression resulting from inhibition of synthesis of biogenic amines in the central nervous system.
(6) The cut of the skin makes two flaps suppressing the navel which is generally salient.
(7) Both Tony Blair and David Cameron saw that one salient way for an opposition leader to convince the country that he can be trusted with power is to demonstrate that he can reform his own party.
(8) Using an objectively-calibrated 2-dimensional search coil, we measured saccades in response to salient, unpredictable targets.
(9) A case of ours showing the salient features and management of a subacute cervical spinal cord abscess is also reported.
(10) A salient feature of the sequence of protein SCMKB-IIIB3 is three consecutive cysteine residues.
(11) The salient aspects of this and the three other reported cases are briefly reviewed, and the pathway of distant dissemination, resulting from venous permeation at the primary site, is emphasized.
(12) Salient clinical findings in this case include DIC associated with extensive ecchymosis and subsequent gangrene of the skin, thrombotic complications that began on the third day of life.
(13) The urethral mesenchyme showed the most salient changes.
(14) The salient elements of the methods are extraction of the residues as the free amine with benzene, rapid cleanup on an alumina column, and quantification of the free amine in methanol via SPF.
(15) The salient findings in myotonic dystrophy were ultrastructural changes of the lymphatic endothelial cells and the fibrillar elements that surround the lymphatic wall.
(16) The salient clinical features and a description of their pathogenesis are summarized.
(17) 6.44am BST My colleague Michael Safi is in Icac today and makes a salient point - O'Farrell is not suspected of acting corruptly .
(18) Salient features of these linkages are discussed, as is the relationship between the data presented here and previously published genetic and cytogenetic data.
(19) Starting with a critique of the DSM-III-R description of the antisocial personality disorder, the author reviews some salient contributions to the concept of the antisocial personality disorder derived from descriptive, sociologic, and psychoanalytic viewpoints.
(20) Several salient characteristics of the practitioners were clarified such as the process of becoming a healer, referral practices, types of disorders treated, and treatment of the traditional folk illnesses.