visual range

1. 1.

   distance at which a given standard object can be seen with the unaided eye

   Broadervisibility

   meteorology

Questions about visual range

What does visual range mean?

visual range means "distance at which a given standard object can be seen with the unaided eye".

Is visual range a common word?

visual range is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.