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visualizer

visualizer

1 5.2
A program that shows music or data as moving pictures
  • noun
  • /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪzər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : visualizador
  • Simulations and animations created with Dynamic Visualizer can be exported as movies in AVI format (on Windows platforms) or in QuickTime format (on the Macintosh).
  • a dynamic visualizer

Examples

  • Wolfram Research announces the release of Dynamic Visualizer, intended to give users a new way to manipulate, render, and animate three-dimensional graphics objects.

    Academic text (1998)

  • First, a workflow visualizer which just lets someone view in real time what this whole chain of task is that has been designed by the crowd and what the current status is.

  • Educators can use Dynamic Visualizer to create interactive tutorials and demonstrations.

    Academic text (1998)

  • The software's visualizer provided real-time charts that made it easy to spot trends in the data.

  • Using the visualizer, she could see the changes in sound waves during the audio editing process.

  • He spent hours adjusting the visualizer to better illustrate the complex simulation for his presentation.

Antonyms

machine-readable text
  • Specialized
4.2

Text in a computer file that a program can read and use

How Visual

dashboard
  • Specialized
18 3.9
visualizer
  • Specialized
1 5.2
machine-readable text
  • Specialized
4.2

Surface Forms

visualizer singular
visualizers plural

Morphology

visualizer = visualize (transparent) = visual + ize + er

Agentive or instrument noun formed from 'visualize'; software tool sense is a straightforward extension of 'one that visualizes'.

Etymology

Visualizer comes from visual ('relating to sight') and -izer ('a thing that makes or shows'), like the familiar words vision and video. So a visualizer is a tool or program that turns sound or data into live pictures to help you see patterns.