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Word: Parallax
Speech Type: Noun
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’)
ˈparəlaks
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
Short Definition:effect whereby position or direction of object appears to differ when viewed from different positions
Examples:- what you see in the viewfinder won't be quite what you get in the photograph because of parallax error
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