vivid

a.	1.	True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors. In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play. - Cowper. Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine. - Bp. Hobart.
	2.	Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination. Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. - South.

Adj.	1.	vivid - evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" Synonyms: lifelike, pictorial, graphic
	2.	vivid - having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a vivid recollection"
	3.	vivid - having striking color; "bright greens"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" Synonyms: bright, brilliant
	4.	vivid - (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue" Synonyms: intense

VIVID - A numerical constraint-oriented language. ["VIVID: The Kernel of a Knowledge Representation Environment Based on the Constraints Paradigm of Computation", J. Maleki, Proc 20th Annual Hawaii Intl Conf on System Sciences (Jan 1987) pp.591-597].

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