view

  1. Noun.  The act of seeing or looking at something.
  2. Noun.  The range of vision.
  3. Noun.  Something to look at, such as a scenery.
  4. Noun.  A picture.
  5. Noun.  A mental image.
  6. Noun.  A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
  7. Noun.  A point of view.
  8. Noun.  An intention or prospect.
  9. Noun.  (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
  10. Noun.  (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user, the part the user interacts with; a user interface to the underlying logic of the program.
  11. Noun.  A wake.
  12. Verb.  (transitive) To look at.
  13. Verb.  (transitive) To show.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.