(law) Of or relating to a statute that abrogates the common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.

A film or video using this technique.

(photography) of or relating to a technique in which exposures are taken at fewer intervals than usual so that, on playback, a naturally slow process may be viewed at an accelerated pace

(meteorology) The rate of change in an atmospheric variable, especially temperature, with increase of height.

plural of lapse rate

plural of time-lapse

(meteorology) The rate of decrease of temperature with height of a parcel of dry air lifted upward through the atmosphere with no addition or deletion of heat.

plural of adiabatic lapse rate