apparent

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French apparent, Old French aparent, aparant, in turn from Latin appārēns, appārentis, present participle of appāreō.

adj

1. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye, eyely; within sight or view.
2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.
   1785, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”), What George Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.
   To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
   This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun. 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica, Aberration
   Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month. 2013-08-03, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847