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visionics

visionics noun: the use of electronic sensors to acquire visual data.

Noun

visionics (uncountable)

  1. The use of electronic sensors to acquire visual data.
    • There have been technological advances in flight controls, electronics, avionics and visionics (sensors), which are now more efficient in terms of their requirements and uses of space, weight, power, form, fit and function. With respect to visionics, in particular, these reductions have made the...1987, Review of Current Military Literature, page 83

Origin of visionics

Blend of vision + electronics, perhaps modelled on avionics.

Questions about visionics

What does visionics mean?
Visionics means the use of electronic sensors to acquire visual data.
What part of speech is visionics?
Visionics is a noun.

Words near visionics in the dictionary

  1. visioneering
  2. visioneers
  3. visioner
  4. visioners
  5. visionic
  6. visionics
  7. visioning
  8. visioning out
  9. visionings
  10. visionist
  11. visionists

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