Usage of "apparent motion"

Portuguese

movimento

Catalan

moviment

Spanish

movimiento

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

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Usage of apparent motion in English

Those calculations also confirmed its apparent motion from east to north to west. 
 Wired 

She approached him slowly, a wraith in the starlight, advancing without apparent motion. 
 Running with the Demon 

Despite the apparent motion of the clouds, there was no breeze. 
 Summer of Night 

The apparent motion of the stars was definitely slowing. 
 Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet 

The distance of these stars is undoubtedly greater, and the apparent motion is therefore smaller. 
 Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science 

And that's because of something neuroscientists call apparent motion. 
 Wired 

The idea in performing this trick successfully is not to show any apparent motion of the muscles. 
 Outdoor Sports and Games 

Their apparent motion slowed rapidly and the material about them thickened and became more and more opaque. 
 Skylark Three 

One trick is to make it move slower - well, not actually slower but slower apparent motion. 
 Wired 

They mark the northern and southern boundaries of the sun's apparent motion over the course of the year. 
 The illustrated longitude: the true story of a lone genius who s... 

One was the apparent motion of the moon, when I tried to walk or run away from it. 
 Confessions of Boyhood 

Arrived at the kirk, they paced around it withershins, that is, in reverse of the apparent motion of the sun. 
 Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 

I set her to going and from her apparent motion hope she has sustained no material injury.-at9 A.M. Sergt. 
 The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 

The mass of nature exercised on him so feeble an attraction that one can scarcely account for his apparent motion. 
 The Education of Henry Adams 

All apparent motion had ceased, and Seaton could see only dimly the outlines of the faidon, now directly before his eyes. 
 Skylark Three 

Of course, the daily history of the appearance and disappearance of light is intimately connected with the apparent motion of the sun. 
 American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the West... 