visionary : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: visionary	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for visionary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
visionary adj not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" Synonym(s): airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy n a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible a person with unusual powers of foresight Synonym(s): visionary, illusionist, seer
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Visionary \Vi"sionary\, 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"sionary\, 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 Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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 (15Feb98) [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}]