Apparent

1. n. An heir apparent.
2. a. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
3. a. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
4. a. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.