: 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)
PERSISTENCE OF VISION
Meaning of PERSISTENCE OF VISION in English
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012