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   parallax

   /ˈparəlaks/

   noun

   • 1. the effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions, e.g. through the viewfinder and the lens of a camera: "what you see in the viewfinder won't be quite what you get in the photograph because of parallax error"
   • ▪ the angular amount of parallax in a particular case, especially that of a star viewed from different points in the earth's orbit: "he succeeded in measuring the parallax of the star 61 Cygni"

   Word Origin late 16th century (also in the general sense ‘fact of seeing wrongly’): from French parallaxe, from Greek parallaxis ‘a change’, from parallassein ‘to alternate’, based on allassein ‘to exchange’ (from allos ‘other’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. parallactic adjective

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