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parallax
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[ˈparəlaks], (Noun)
Definitions:
- 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
(e.g: what you see in the viewfinder won't be quite what you get in the photograph because of parallax error)
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Origin
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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’)
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