apparent movement

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noun

psychol the sensation of seeing movement when nothing actually moves in the environment, as when two neighbouring lights are switched on and off in rapid succession

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Words nearby apparent movement

apparent candlepower, apparentement, apparent horizon, apparently, apparent magnitude, apparent movement, apparent solar day, apparent temperature, apparent time, apparent wind, apparition

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Any plans to grow her exercise movement must, she insists, remain “completely organic.”
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But the real mystery and injustice came from Brooke being essentially written out of the history of the civil rights movement.
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Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?
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The feminist movement has encouraged women that they can initiate romantic relationships, too.
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Residents of the neighborhoods where cops are needed the most are mixed on the impact of the apparent slowdown.
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Selections for practice should be chosen which contain much variety of thought and feeling and are smooth in movement.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
The major-general kept him well informed of every movement of the enemy, and pointed out the dangerous isolation of Davout.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
The significance of time is determined by the movement of any selection, or, in other words, the rhythm.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
He heard himself saying lightly, though with apparent lack of interest: 'How curious, Lettice, how very odd!
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood

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