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Dictionary: see·ing   ('ĭng) pronunciation
conj.
Inasmuch as; in view of the fact: Seeing that you're already at the door, I suppose I must invite you inside.


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noun

    The faculty of seeing: eye, eyesight, sight, vision. Archaic light1. See see/not see.

 
seeing, in astronomy, the clarity with which stars and other celestial objects can be observed. It is primarily determined by the atmosphere of the earth. The most obvious phenomenon is twinkling, when the brightness of a star seems to fluctuate. Known to astronomers as scintillation, twinkling is caused by thermal motion of the air, which swirls air layers of different temperature and density. This motion causes minute alterations in the path of light from a star because different densities of air will bend light by different amounts. Twinkling is most obvious near the horizon because the light path from a star passes through more of the atmosphere. Since a planet is a disk and not, as a star, a point source, it will not usually show twinkling, but undulations across its surface can be viewed when it is near the horizon owing to the same effect. In addition, the atmosphere is denser at the bottom than at the top and thus continually bends a ray of light from a star more and more toward the vertical. As a result, all stars except those directly overhead appear to be closer to the zenith than they actually are; this is most pronounced for stars near the horizon. This effect causes the sun (or moon) to appear elliptical when it is rising or setting because its bottom edge is raised more by the refraction of the atmosphere than its top. Astronomical observatories are located in areas where seeing is good, usually on mountains where they are above some of the more turbulent layers of the atmosphere and also removed from cities' lights. Astronomers consider the seeing excellent when the star image covers 0.5″ of sky or less. Some observatories use adaptive optics, in which telescope optics are adjusted instantly by computer to correct for seeing effects.


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IN BRIEF: n. - Normal use of the faculty of vision; adj. - Perceiving; Looking at or beholding.

pronunciation Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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The word seeing can mean more than one thing:

  • In common usage, the word means visual perception
  • Astronomical seeing, the blurring effects of air turbulence in the atmosphere
  • In the occult seeing refers to "the sight" or the ability to see auras or to predict the future; see fortune-telling
  • Seeing (novel), the English title of José Saramago's 2004 novel Ensaio sobre a Lucidez

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Dansk (Danish)
conj. - siden, eftersom, i betragtning af
n. - syn, synsevne, observationsforhold

idioms:

  • seeing as    i betragtning af at
  • Seeing Eye dog    førerhund

Nederlands (Dutch)
aangezien, ziend, zicht

Français (French)
conj. - étant donné que, vu que, puisque
n. - qualité de l'image déterminée par les conditions atmosphériques

idioms:

  • seeing as    étant donné, vu que
  • Seeing Eye dog    chien d'aveugle

Deutsch (German)
conj. - da, weil
n. - Sehvermögen

idioms:

  • seeing as    da
  • Seeing Eye dog    Blindenhund

Ελληνική (Greek)
conj. - δεδομένου (ότι)
n. - όραση, παρατήρηση

idioms:

  • seeing as    δεδομένου ότι
  • Seeing Eye dog    σκύλος για τυφλούς

Italiano (Italian)
siccome, dal momento che, vista

idioms:

  • seeing as    dato che
  • Seeing Eye dog    cane guida

Português (Portuguese)
conj. - visto que
n. - visão (f)

idioms:

  • seeing as    visto como
  • Seeing Eye dog    Cão de cego

Русский (Russian)
способность или возможность видеть, видимость, из-за, в связи с, принимая во внимание, ввиду того, что

idioms:

  • seeing as    ввиду того, что, поскольку
  • Seeing Eye dog    собака-поводырь

Español (Spanish)
conj. - como, puesto que, ya que, comoquiera que, porque, pues, visto que
n. - vista, visión, acción de ver

idioms:

  • seeing as    visto como
  • Seeing Eye dog    perro lazarillo o guía

Svenska (Swedish)
conj. - eftersom, med tanke på att
n. - seende, synförmåga

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
鉴于, 由于, 因为, 视觉, 观看, 视力

idioms:

  • seeing as    因为, 鉴于
  • Seeing Eye dog    导盲犬

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
conj. - 鑒於, 由於, 因為
n. - 視覺, 觀看, 視力

idioms:

  • seeing as    因為, 鑑於
  • Seeing Eye dog    導盲犬

한국어 (Korean)
conj. - ~이므로, ~을 생각하면, ~임에 비하면
n. - 보기, 시력, 시각

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 見ること, 視力, シーイング
adj. - 目の見える, 視力をそなえた
conj. - …である点からみると

idioms:

  • I'll be seeing you    じゃあまたね
  • seeing as    ~であるからには
  • Seeing Eye dog    盲導犬

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(حرف عطف) بألنظر ألى (الاسم) مشاهدة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
conj. - ‮הואיל ו-‬
n. - ‮ראייה, ראות‬


 
 
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