I'll draw it [the sword] as apparent to the crown.
--Shak.
The moon . . . apparent queen. --Milton.
2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident;
obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
It is apparent foul play. --Shak.
3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not
necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the
apparent motion or diameter of the sun.
To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent
friendship. --Macaulay.
What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by
astronomers called apparent magnitude. --Reid.
{Apparent horizon}, the circle which in a level plain bounds
our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the
earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational
horizon.
{Heir apparent} (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible
if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from
presumptive heir. See {Presumptive}.
Syn: Visible; distinct; plain; obvious; clear; certain;
evident; manifest; indubitable; notorious.