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Parallax

noun

The apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object.

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"Parallax" Quotes from Famous Books

... his judgment, they are at least not the hackneyed prejudices of the past—if they lead to false conclusions, they at least furnish a new point of view, from which, taken with other widely differing views, the judicious reader may establish a parallax that will enable him to approximate ...

— The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and - Selected Essays • Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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