plural of parallax

An apparent shift in the position of two stationary objects relative to each other as viewed by an observer, due to a change in observer position.

(transitive) To measure (a distance) based on parallax observations. / (animation) To produce an illusion of levels of distance by shifting layers at different rates.

simple past tense and past participle of parallax

present participle of parallax

(photography, optics) The illusion of higher speed travel of a foreground object moving, when it is closer to the observer/camera, than when it is further away.

(photography, optics) The apparent motion of a tracking-locked foreground object against a background, when the camera is moving across the environment. (ie. A stationary object will appear to move across a background, when a moving camera is locked to track it)

(philosophy) philosophical phenomenon described as the dislocation of the axis of the theoretical construction of a thinker and the axis of his lived experience; discrepancy between theory and experience

A unit of length, used in astronomy, defined as the distance from the Earth of an object that exhibits a parallax of 1 arcsecond. It is approximately equal to 3.08568025 × 10¹³ kilometers or 3.2616 light years.

plural of parallax second