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8 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for PARALLAX in dictionary:

NOUN:

an apparent optical displacement of an object
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
The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.
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.
the apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object
the angular amount of parallax in a particular case, especially that of a star viewed from different points in the earth's orbit
apparent change in an object's position due to a change in the observer's position

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

apparent change in an object\'s position due to a change in the observer\'s position

Words related to PARALLAX

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Words that contain PARALLAX

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How to use PARALLAX in a sentence

To get the parallax of heavenly truths, you must take an observation from the position of the laity as well as of the clergy.
This celebrated star, first seen by Tycho Brahe in the constellation Cassiopeia, never changed its position, or presented the slightest perceptible parallax.
Thus, on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt, as, for example, in detecting the parallax of a star.
Every one knows that the difference of angle under which an object is seen from two standpoints is called its parallax.
In reply to Tycho, it was said that, since the parallax of a body diminishes as its distance increases, a star may be so far off that its parallax may be imperceptible.
The detection of the parallax of the stars depended on the improvement of instruments for the measurement of angles.
Its parallax was first found by Bessel in 1838, and is about one-third of a second.
Mohn, of Christiania, for measuring the parallax of the aurora borealis.
Hence, of all the stars in the Pleiades these are the most likely to have a measurable annual parallax.
It is improbable, however, that even these nearer stars are practicable subjects for the direct determination of annual parallax.

Such is the happy combination by the aid of which Laplace has solved the great, the celebrated problem of parallax.
Four determinations of the parallax, which determines the distance, have been made.
He needed such a meeting to measure the parallax of his progress and her stagnation.
This fact was taken advantage of to explain to them that it was done by measuring the parallax of the moon.
To avoid error due to parallax, the readings may be taken by means of a reading telescope about ten feet distant and approximately on a level with the wire.
Tycho wrote a little book on the new star, maintaining that it had practically no parallax, and therefore could not be, as some supposed, a comet.
We discovered right soon that he was born with his parallax or something out of gear.
It is not necessary for two observers to actually station themselves at two distant parts of the earth in order to determine a parallax.
The nearest one is the brightest star in the Centaur, never visible in our northern latitudes, which has a parallax of about one second.
PARALLAX, the difference of direction of a heavenly body as seen from two points, as the centre of the earth and some point of its surface, 69.
The parallax, or one half of the change in the apparent position of the stars as the earth moves around the sun, has its largest value for the nearest stars.
They determined the parallax of the clouds by angular measurements made from two stations at the extremities of a base of convenient length and having telephonic connection.
Mohn, specially for measuring the parallax of the aurora borealis.

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