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visual language

visual language noun: those aspects of communication that rely on visual elements, such as illustrations, formatting, gesture, etc.

Noun

visual language (plural visual languages)

  1. Those aspects of communication that rely on visual elements, such as illustrations, formatting, gesture, etc.
    • However, we also have to learn to "read" and understand the meaning of visual information and the components of visual language.1989, Rune Pettersson, Visuals for Information: Research and Practice, →ISBN, page 146
    • The designer's task is to make visual language responsive to the rhetorical situation: the audience, the purpose, and the context of the document.1998, Charles Kostelnick, David Donovan Roberts, Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators, page 440
  2. VPL (visual programming language); a programming language that allows software developers to generate code by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually.
    • A processor for a visual language consists of a graphical frontend attached to phases that analyse and transform the visual programs.2001, Reinhard Wilhelm, Compiler Construction, →ISBN
    • Also, the XML-based form of TUIML allowed us to precisely and formally define TUIML while adding a secondary textual notation to the visual language.2008, Orit Ziv Shaer, A Visual Language for Specifying and Programming Tangible User Interfaces, →ISBN

Examples of visual language in a sentence

  • In this paper I intend to explore the visual language used in cinema and their connection with human values.2008, Kanti Lal Das, Anirban Mukherjee, Language and Ontology, →ISBN, page 87:
  • The VPL implementation involves the implementation of a whole programming environment with a user interface which supports developing programs using a visual language.2010, Kang Zhang, Visual Languages and Applications, →ISBN, page 167:

Forms of visual language

pluralvisual languages

Questions about visual language

What does visual language mean?
Visual language means those aspects of communication that rely on visual elements, such as illustrations, formatting, gesture, etc.
How do you use visual language in a sentence?
In this paper I intend to explore the visual language used in cinema and their connection with human values.
What part of speech is visual language?
Visual language is a noun.
What is the plural of visual language?
The plural of visual language is visual languages.

Words near visual language in the dictionary

  1. visual field
  2. visual fields
  3. visual hole
  4. visual holes
  5. visual kei
  6. visual language
  7. visual languages
  8. visual magnitude
  9. visual magnitudes
  10. visual merchandiser
  11. visual merchandisers

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