PERSISTENCE OF VISION


Meaning of PERSISTENCE OF VISION in English

: a visual phenomenon that is responsible for the apparent continuity of rapidly presented discrete images (as in motion pictures or television) consisting essentially of a brief retinal persistence of one image so that it is overlapped by the next and the whole is centrally interpreted as continuous — compare fusion 2d(2)

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