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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 object
Familiarity information: APPARENT MOTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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