Plain English Meaning
Picturing yourself doing something in your head, step by step, as a way of practicing it without actually moving.
Full Definition
An instructional technique in which the learner forms a detailed mental image of performing a task or procedure, rehearsing the actions, sequence, and expected outcomes in the mind before or between actual performances.
Context Anchor
Seen in flight instruction when an instructor asks a learner to mentally rehearse a maneuver, a checklist flow, a traffic pattern, or a cockpit action.
Derivation
From the Latin visualis, meaning 'of sight,' through the verb visualize, 'to form a mental picture.' In aviation training it carries the specific sense of deliberate mental rehearsal, not just casual imagining.