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APPARENT MOTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apparent motion mean? 

APPARENT MOTION (noun)
  The noun APPARENT MOTION has 1 sense:

1. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving objectplay

  Familiarity information: APPARENT MOTION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


APPARENT MOTION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

apparent motion; apparent movement; motion; movement

Context example:

the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement

Hypernyms ("apparent motion" is a kind of...):

optical illusion (an optical phenomenon that results in a false or deceptive visual impression)


 Context examples 


While the star itself is ancient — probably twice the age of our Sun — and relatively inactive, it also has the fastest apparent motion of any star in the night sky.

(Super-Earth Discovered Around Barnard's Star, ESO)



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