Crossword-Solution: PARALLAX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parallax | n. | The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view. |
| Parallax | n. | 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. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “PARALLAX”
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| Apparent change in position due to perspective | 1 answer |
| apparent change in an object's position due to a change in the observer's position | 1 answer |
| Visual displacement, in astronomy | 1 answer |
| Two deficiencies? | 1 answer |
| Difference in apparent direction, in astronomy | 1 answer |
| Apparent movement, in astronomy | 1 answer |
| Apparent displacement of an observed object | 1 answer |
| Apparent displacement due to perspective | 1 answer |
| Apparent displacement due to observer movement | 1 answer |
| Apparent change in position | 1 answer |
| "The ___ View," 1974 Beatty film | 1 answer |
| "The ___ View" (1974 Beatty thriller) | 1 answer |
| Term in astronomy. | 2 answers |
| Optical phenomenon | 5 answers |
| Celestial phenomenon | 6 answers |
| Astronomy Major in | 10 answers |
| astronomy Muse | 10 answers |
| ASTRONOMY STUDY | 10 answers |
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Sentences with PARALLAX (5)
The parallax of fixed stars, shown by Bessel as well as other noted astronomers in 1838, clinched forever the doctrine of the revolution of the earth around the sun, and in 1851 the great experiment of Foucault with the pendulum showed to the human eye the earth in motion around its own axis.
The parallax of Venus is however almost four times as great as that of the sun; and there must therefore be a very sensible difference between the times in which Venus may be seen passing over the sun from different parts of the earth.
Follow the course of opinion on the great subjects of human interest for a few generations or centuries, get its parallax, map out a small arc of its movement, see where it tends, and then see who is in advance of it or even with it; the world calls him hard names, probably; but if you would find the _ova_ of the future, you must look into the folds of his cerebral convolutions.
This celebrated star, first seen by Tycho Brahe in the constellation Cassiopeia, never changed its position, or presented the slightest perceptible parallax.
Halley shall demonstrate the importance of observations of the transit of Venus as the only certain way of obtaining the sun's parallax, and hence the distance of the sun from the earth; he shall predict the return of that mysterious body which we call a comet.
Quotes with PARALLAX (3)
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before — the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compresse…
She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Klute,' 'Chinatown,' 'Network,' and 'The Parallax View': They were drawn from the genre tradition, but they dressed down the stylistic telling of those traditions and genres.
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1966–2021).