clairvoyant

From French clairvoyant, from clair (“clear”) + voyant (“seeing”), present participle of voir (“see”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌklɛəˈvɔɪ.ənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌklɛɹˈvɔɪ.ənt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ.ənt

clairvoyant (comparative more clairvoyant, superlative most clairvoyant)

1. Of, relating to, or having clairvoyance.
   • 1899, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Clairvoyance‎^[1]:

     Then there is the very large class of casual clairvoyant visions which have no traceable cause — which are apparently quite meaningless, and have no recognizable relation to any events known to the seer.

2. Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.
3. Able to foresee the future.
4. Having great insight; sagacious.
   • 1895, John Ames Mitchell (ed.), Aristopi‎^[2]:

     …his vision of the future so far-reaching and clairvoyant as that of many who have lived before him and since…

5. (computing) Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.

• The feminine form clairvoyante is also used, though rarely.

• clairvoyantly
• nonclairvoyant
• semiclairvoyant

• clairvoyance
• clairvoyancy
• clairvoyee
• visionary

clairvoyant (plural clairvoyants)

1. A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses
2. A person able to foresee the future

• (person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses): medium, mystic, seer
• (person able to foresee the future): fortune teller

• clairvoyante

• Improving Clairvoyant: Reduction algorithm resilient to imbalanced process arrival times
• What is a clairvoyant algorithm

• covariantly

Univerbation of clair voyant, from voir clair.

• IPA^(key): /klɛʁ.vwa.jɑ̃/

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clairvoyant (feminine clairvoyante, masculine plural clairvoyants, feminine plural clairvoyantes)

1. clairvoyant

• “clairvoyant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.