slow motion

¹

noun

1. the process or technique of filming or taping a motion-picture or television sequence at an accelerated rate of speed and then projecting or replaying it at normal speed so that the action appears to be slowed down.
2. the effect thus created.

slow-motion

²

[ sloh-moh-shuhn ]

adjective

1. of, pertaining to or made in slow motion:

   a slow-motion replay.

2. moving or proceeding at a strikingly slow rate:

   slow-motion progress toward a settlement.

slow motion

noun

1. films television action that is made to appear slower than normal by passing the film through the taking camera at a faster rate than normal or by replaying a video tape recording more slowly

adjective

1. films television of or relating to such action
2. moving or functioning at less than usual speed

Word History and Origins

Origin of slow motion¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Origin of slow motion²

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

From there we watch in slow motion as the fire explodes, traveling an acre a second and cascading through the tiny community of Concow—where residents only knew of the fire when flames licked their homes—before bearing down on Paradise.

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Red-tinted smoke rose into the sky above forested hills, a warning in slow motion of a new apocalypse—and we rushed toward it.

From Outside Online

He later described the scene to me in slow motion, recalling the nightmarish view of his own fingers flopping limply from his wrist as he was flung about.

From Outside Online

The shape undulated like a serpent in slow motion, a ghost in the heavens.

From Outside Online

Regardless of how Private Relay will evolve, it will do so in slow motion.

From Digiday

She slow-motion jogs through the courtyard, paints his portrait, and carves his name into a tree.

From The Daily Beast

Then, she was always posing in slow-motion, as if perpetually taking mental selfies.

From The Daily Beast

Many Israeli politicians have begun pushing for slow-motion regime change in Gaza.

From The Daily Beast

But Nicki Minaj doesn't just exercise in slow motion once or twice a week.

From The Daily Beast

But now, Ebola has moved beyond its standard slow motion, person-to-person transmission.

From The Daily Beast

The principal source of the irregularities was found in the concealed upper differential wheel of the Grubb slow motion.

From Project Gutenberg

Riggs swayed in slow motion until a lost balance felled him heavily, an inert mass.

From Project Gutenberg

The shout, coming in slow motion at first, picked up speed until it sounded like an on-rushing train.

From Project Gutenberg

The black rods floated with slow motion in the minute currents of fluid I had introduced.

From Project Gutenberg

Plenty of solder is melted on to the work, and is drawn along over the joint by a single slow motion of the soldering bit.

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