Heartburn and Reflux For Dummies. Digestion is the process of changing food into a form that the body can absorb and use as energy or as the raw materials to repair and build new tissue. Digesting food is a two-part process thatâs half mechanical, half chemical. Mechanical digestion begins in your mouth as your teeth tear and grind food into [â¦]
apparent (comparative more apparent, superlative most apparent) 1  Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye, eyely; within sight or view. 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, [â¦] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And oâer the dark her silver mantle threw.
An heir apparent is a person, of either sex, who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person. An heir presumptive, by contrast, is someone who is first in line to inherit a title but who can be displaced by the birth of a more eligible heir. Today these terms most commonly describe heirs to hereditary titles, particularly monarchies.