parallax
/ˈpærəlæks/noun
mass noun
1- the effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions, e.g. through the viewfinder and the lens of a camera视差。
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- count noun the angular amount of this in a particular case, especially that of a star viewed from different points in the earth's orbit视差(尤指地球运行时不同位置观察到的星位角度)。
派生词
parallactic
adjective词源
late 16th cent. (also in the general sense 'fact of seeing wrongly'): from French parallaxe, from Greek parallaxis 'a change', from parallassein 'to alternate', based on allassein 'to exchange' (from allos 'other').