time-lapse
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of time-lapse
First recorded in 1925–30
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"The breakthrough was learning how to turn that time-lapse into hourly maps of currents by tracking how temperature patterns bend, stretch and move from one hour to the next."
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
The photography is occasionally dazzling—a standout sequence is a series of time-lapse images providing views of the movements of the stars over Africa—but Mr. Herzog is primarily a storyteller, albeit a digressive one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
In many respects, it was a weird game that — thanks to all the running — glided by with the speed of time-lapse photography.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2024
This time-lapse video shows swirls of green, pink and scarlet moving across the sky over a residential area in Nottingham.
From BBC • May 10, 2024
I could feel myself growing stronger, like one of those plants in a time-lapse video, And the scent coming from the cave was nothing like the dank wet underground.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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