seeing
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see·ing
(sē'ĭng) 
conj.
Inasmuch as; in view of the fact: Seeing that you're already at the door, I suppose I must invite you inside.
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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is commonly used as a kind of conjunction, often followed by that, with the meaning 'because, considering that':
He was the kid-brother whom I helped as far as I could, seeing that we had no mother—B. Cobb, 1971.The origin of the expression in actual observation is evident from continuing borderline uses:
Seeing that he was not about to change his attitude, I stood up and punched him in the nose—fiction website, British English 2001 [Old English (up to 1150)C].The forms seeing as and seeing as how occur in informal contexts.
| sect, secretary, second hand | |
| seem, self, self- |
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The blurring of a stellar (pointlike) image due to turbulence in Earth's atmosphere. Seeing estimates are often given in terms of the full-width in arcseconds of the image at the points where the intensity has fallen to half its peak value. The typical value at a good site is a little better than 1″. Amateur astronomers often used the five-point Antoniadi Scale, which rates seeing as I (perfect), II (good), III (moderate), IV (poor), and V (appalling).
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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.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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categories related to 'seeing'
- Celestial Phenomena and Points - seeing: blurring of telescopic images of celestial bodies due to turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere
- Conjunctions
- Enlightenment, Truth, and the Unknowable - seeing: enlightenment
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Seeing
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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