apparent motion

1. 1.

   an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object

   “the cinema relies on apparent motion”

   “the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement”

   Synonymsmotionapparent movementmovement

   Broaderoptical illusion

Questions about apparent motion

What does apparent motion mean?

apparent motion means "an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object".

What is another word for apparent motion?

Close synonyms include motion, apparent movement, movement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apparent motion a common word?

apparent motion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.