visual phenomenon

collocation in English

meaningsofvisualandphenomenon

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visual
adjective
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/ˈvɪʒ.u.əl/us
/ˈvɪʒ.u.əl/
relating ...
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phenomenon
noun[C]
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/fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/us
/fəˈnɑː.mə.nɑːn/
something that exists and can be seen, felt, tasted, etc., especially something unusual ...
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(Definition ofvisualandphenomenonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These are attempts to simulate visual phenomena resulting from the optical characteristics of cameras and of the human eye.
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He advocated a methodology that required validation against real visual phenomena.
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They are credited with reopening the interest of psychologists in these visual phenomena, and pointing out how they shed light on basic visual processing.
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Many have reported visual phenomena including the sun spinning in the sky or changing color and figures such as hearts and crosses around the sun.
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This made it possible for electrophysiologists to record the nervous response to light stimulation easily, and to observe visual phenomena such as lateral inhibition working at the cellular level.
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What, in the technique of composition, corresponds to thisvisualphenomenon?
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The difference between a tautogram and alliteration is that tautograms are a written,visualphenomenon, whereas alliterations are a phonetic one.
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This will cause running rabbits, avisualphenomenonthat can severely clutter up a scope with useless data.
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Ice fog often leads to thevisualphenomenonof light pillars.
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Colocalization is avisualphenomenonwhen two molecules of interest are associated with the same structures in the cells and potentially share common functional characteristics.
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It is important for health care practitioners to be able to differentiate between thevisualphenomenon of palinopsia and that described by those experiencing migraine aura.
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In terms of art his philosophy was that art could be made from anything, but it was always avisualphenomenonand not a conceptual illustration.
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These visual phenomena are difficult to interpret in respect of the two hypotheses of mental imagery.
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It should be noted that both visual phenomena considered here are independent of any theoretical concept such as, for example, the assumption of neural representations.
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These motion points are calculated based on movement or changing visual phenomena within the image.
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Neon color spreading is characterized by the color being used to create the visual phenomena.
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To avoid this confusion, the term subjective visual phenomena is sometimes used.
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However, many of the perceptual illusions and visual phenomena exhibited by the gestaltists were taken over (often without credit) by later perceptual psychologists.
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Attempts at empirical explanations of perceptual visual phenomena have led to the examination of the orientation distribution of contours in the everyday visual world.
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