How to pronounce “parallax”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• An apparent shift in the position of two stationary objects relative to each other as viewed by an observer, due to a change in observer position.
• (astronomy) The angle of seeing of the astronomical unit.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To measure (a distance) based on parallax observations.
• (animation) To produce an illusion of levels of distance by shifting layers at different rates.

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