VISUAL COMMUNICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visual communication mean? 

• VISUAL COMMUNICATION (noun)
  The noun VISUAL COMMUNICATION has 1 sense:

1. communication that relies on vision

  Familiarity information: VISUAL COMMUNICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISUAL COMMUNICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Communication that relies on vision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("visual communication" is a kind of...):

communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)

Meronyms (parts of "visual communication"):

visual signal (a signal that involves visual communication)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visual communication"):

picture; video (the visible part of a television transmission)

video ((computer science) the appearance of text and graphics on a video display)

gesture; motion (the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals)

body language (communication via the movements or attitudes of the body)

demo; demonstration (a visual presentation showing how something works)

eye contact (a meeting of the eyes between two people that expresses meaningful nonverbal communication)

projection (the projection of an image from a film onto a screen)

art; artwork; graphics; nontextual matter (photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication)

graphic design (visual communication by a skillful combination of text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, books, etc.)

chart; graph (a visual display of information)

graph; graphical record; graphical recording (a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes)

 Context examples 

Because these tiny frogs are brightly colored, diurnal and known to use visual signals, the researchers hypothesize that visual communication has replaced acoustic communication.

(Tiny Brazilian Frogs Deaf to Own Calls, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)