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visionary |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Visionary \Vi"sion*a*ry\, a. [Cf. F. visionnaire.] 1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by appropriate to or favorable for visions. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Visionary \Vi"sion*a*ry\, n.; pl {Visionaries}. 1. One whose imagination is disturbed; one who sees visions or phantoms. 2. One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: visionary adj : not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" [syn: {airy}, {impractical}] n : a person with unusual powers of foresight [syn: {illusionist}, {seer}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: visionary n. 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer. The problem is how can the computer be programmed to make use of the camera information? See {SMOP}, {AI-complete}.) 2. [IBM] One who reads the outside literature. At IBM, apparently, such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: visionary 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to see" things using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer. The problem is how can the computer be programmed to make use of the camera information? See {SMOP}, {AI-complete}.) 2. [IBM] One who reads the outside literature. At IBM, apparently, such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder. [{Jargon File}]
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