What does visibility mean?
Word: Visibility
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Visibility means how far or how clearly you can see, often because of the weather; also how easily something can be seen or noticed.
Synonyms: clarity, clearness
Antonyms: invisibility, obscurity
How do you spell visibility?
Syllables: vis - i - bil - i - ty
Tricky part: There are four i's, one in each syllable but the last. Visible ends in -ible and keeps that i, so it is not visability; students also drop the last i: visibilty.
Watch out for: visability, visibilty, visiblity
Memory tip: Visible gives visibility the same way possible gives possibility: -ible turns into -ibility.
Visibility in a sentence
Example 1: Visibility on the highway was so poor that drivers switched on their hazard lights.
Example 2: A reflective jacket increases a cyclist's visibility at night.
Example 3: The campaign gave the small charity much more visibility in the city.
Fun Fact
At Delhi airport, winter fog sometimes cuts runway visibility to a few hundred metres or less, and then only specially trained pilots in suitably equipped planes may land.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
One letter in this word is not needed. Find it:
vissibility
a) l
b) s
c) b
d) i
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b) s. Visible starts vis- with a single s, and visibility keeps it.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
From the top of the lighthouse, the tibiyiilsv on a clear day stretches for many kilometres out to sea.
a) sensibility
b) divisibility
c) possibility
d) visibility
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d) visibility. Divisibility would need a d and an extra i, and sensibility and possibility have no v, which leaves visibility.
Spell-o-Spell
Only one of these words is spelt correctly. Choose its meaning:
1. atmosphear 2. horizen 3. humiddity 4. visibility
a) the distance you are able to see clearly
b) the line where the earth seems to meet the sky
c) the amount of water in the air
d) the layer of gases around the earth
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a) the distance you are able to see clearly. Horizon ends in -on, atmosphere in -ere, and humidity has one d.
Word Makeup
Only one of these words does NOT take the prefix in- to make a real word. Choose it:
in-
a) correct
b) visible
c) active
d) happy
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d) happy. Unhappy is the opposite of happy; invisible, incorrect and inactive are the in- words.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When would visibility be lowest?
a) at noon in summer
b) on a clear spring morning
c) in a dense winter fog
d) under a bright full moon
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c) in a dense winter fog
2. A road sign with good visibility is one that ____.
a) is easy to see
b) is hard to read
c) is often ignored
d) is out of date
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a) is easy to see
