VIEWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viewer mean? 

• VIEWER (noun)
  The noun VIEWER has 2 senses:

1. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)

2. an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies

  Familiarity information: VIEWER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIEWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness

Context example:

sky watchers discovered a new star

Hypernyms ("viewer" is a kind of...):

beholder; observer; perceiver; percipient (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "viewer"):

browser (a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular)

bystander (a nonparticipant spectator)

cheerer (a spectator who shouts encouragement)

eyewitness (a spectator who can describe what happened)

gawker (a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness)

motion-picture fan; moviegoer (someone who goes to see movies)

ogler (a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person)

looker-on; onlooker (someone who looks on)

playgoer; theatergoer; theatregoer (someone who attends the theater)

rubberneck; rubbernecker (a person who stares inquisitively)

spy (a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people)

starer (a viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility))

peeper; Peeping Tom; voyeur (a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others)

Derivation:

view (see or watch)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An optical device for viewing photographic transparencies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("viewer" is a kind of...):

optical device (a device for producing or controlling light)

Derivation:

view (look at carefully; study mentally)

 Context examples 

Many viewers on Earth observed a Venus transit in June 2012, the last visible from Earth this century.

(Mercury passes in front of the Sun, as seen from Mars, NASA)

Green indicates filaments with their magnetic field pointing roughly toward the viewer, and blue indicates filaments with their magnetic fields pointing away.

(Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy's halo, National Science Foundation)

Each child watched videos that showed either an actress speaking directly to the viewer or scenes of children interacting in daycare.

(Children’s visual engagement is heritable and altered in autism, National Institutes of Health)

They found that phantom brightness enhancements appear in places where the viewer is looking through a "fold" in the curtain.

(Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions', NASA)

If you want to stand out above the rest and generate critical acclaim from clients or customers, readers or viewers, you would need a strongly placed Mars.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)