Capable of being seen or noticed.
Worthy of note; significant.
Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.
Protected by a legal patent.
Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.
To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.
Explicit and obvious.
Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.
Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development.
Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.
To (successfully) register (a new invention) with a government agency to obtain the sole privilege of its manufacture, sale, and use for a specified period.
To obtain (over a piece of real property) a specific grant of ownership.
To be closely associated or identified with (something); to monopolize.
The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.
A characteristic or quality that one possesses; in particular (hyperbolic) as if exclusively; a monopoly.
A licence or (formal) permission to do something.
An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.
A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.
A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.
A product in respect of which a patent (sense 1.2.2) has been obtained.
A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.