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visual language en · NOUN

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1. Those aspects of communication that rely on visual elements, such as illustrations, formatting, gesture, etc.
   • 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 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:
   • 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:
   • In order to fulfil this function as a medium of communication, the visual language of botanical illustrations could not differ so much from the conventions of the genre that they became difficult for the audience to understand. 2006, Kärin Nickelsen, Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature, →ISBN, page 158:
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.
   • 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:
   • UML is a visual language. 2009, Dragan Gaševic, Ralf Lämmel, Eric van Wyk, Software Language Engineering, →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:
   • 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:

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