0 an occasion when someone appears in public: --
I didn't really want to go to the party, but I thought I'd better put in an appearance.
This was the defendant's third court appearance for the same offence.
She will be making a public appearance, signing copies of her latest novel.
It was his first appearance on television/television appearance as president.
1 the way a person or thing looks to other people: --
To all appearances their marriage is fine, but I think she gives him a bad time in private.
He was a far more complicated man than outward appearances suggested.
Appearances can be deceptive.
The large car outside the house gave the appearance of wealth (= suggested wealthy people lived there).
You can alter/change the whole appearance of a room just by lighting it in a certain way.
a middle-aged man of smart appearance
2 the way a person or thing looks or seems to other people: --
3 a public performance in a play, movie, dance, or other similar event: --
4 the act of becoming noticeable or the fact of being present: --
It was his first television appearance.
The resulting changes in color appearance are consistent with mechanisms formed by different linear combinations of the cone signals.
In fact, there are specific postnatal critical periods and developmental sequences for the appearance of the biogenic amines dopamine and noradrenaline.
This strongly suggests that the cause of the instability must be sought in the low-capillary-number regime, which is consistent with its delayed appearance.
The following chapters, though superficially presenting the appearance of disconnected essays, really possess a strong bond of continuity.
And third, the woman looks either dead or made of plastic which problematises her otherwise conventionally attractive appearance.
Again, this is in accordance with the postmodern principle that the appearance has priority over the technical and the practical.
In these specimens, the thin stripes also displayed a more dotted appearance in the peripheral field representation.
The band typically had a rather distorted appearance, and showed slight variations in electrophoretic migration depending on the amount of sample in the gel.
