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IN-PERSON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does in-person mean?
• IN-PERSON (adjective)
The adjective IN-PERSON has 1 sense:
1. an appearance carried out personally in someone else's physical presence
Familiarity information: IN-PERSON used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An appearance carried out personally in someone else's physical presence
Synonyms:
in-person; in the flesh
Context example:
a personal appearance is an appearance by a person in the flesh
Similar:
personal (concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality)
Context examples
Visual stimuli included objects that have a characteristic color (oranges, strawberries, tomatoes), objects with arbitrary color (Legos, toy cars), and in-person actors representing a diversity of skin colors.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
One theory is that in the context of in-person actors’ faces, the LPS lighting created a kind of optical illusion.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
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