Usually means: Perception of stable shape despite changes.
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Definitions from WordNet (shape constancy)

noun:  the tendency to perceive the shape of a rigid object as constant despite differences in the viewing angle (and consequent differences in the shape of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)


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