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PARALLAX
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("parallax" is a kind of...):
optical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon related to or involving light)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parallax"):
annual parallax; heliocentric parallax (the parallax of a celestial body using two points in the earth's orbit around the sun as the baseline)
diurnal parallax; geocentric parallax (the parallax of a celestial body using two points on the surface of the earth as the earth rotates)
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