PARALLAX
\pˈaɹəlˌaks], \pˈaɹəlˌaks], \p_ˈa_ɹ_ə_l_ˌa_k_s]\
Definitions of PARALLAX
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The apparent difference in position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun.
By Oddity Software
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The apparent difference in position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun.
By Noah Webster.
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1. The apparent movement of objects due to movement of the observer. 2. The apparent movement of an object when one eye is closed.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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An apparent change in the position of an object caused by change of position in the observer: (astr.) the difference between the apparent and real place of a celestial object.
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PARALLACTIC, PARALLACTICAL.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Apparent change in the position of an object, due to a change in the position of the observer; specially the difference in the position of a heavenly body, as seen from the earth's surface, and from the centre of the earth or of the sun.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In celestial bodies, the apparent angular shifting of a heavenly object arising from a change in our point of view; the difference between the apparent place of a heavenly object, as seen by an observer from any station, and its true position as supposed to be seen from the centre of the earth or the centre of the sun.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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