Usually means: Apparent shift due to perspective.
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  1. parallax: Merriam-Webster
  2. parallax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parallax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. parallax: Infoplease Dictionary
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  9. parallax: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Parallax (Atlas Sound album), Parallax (Greg Howe album), Parallax (TV series), Parallax (Voyager episode), Parallax (comics), Parallax (disambiguation), Parallax (journal), Parallax (video game), Parallax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Parallax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. parallax: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  14. Parallax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. parallax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. parallax: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. parallax: FreeDictionary.org
  18. parallax: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  22. parallax: Wiktionary
  23. parallax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  24. parallax: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Parallax (astronomy), parallax: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. parallax: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. Parallax (astronomy), parallax: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Parallax: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Parallax: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. PARALLAX: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parallax: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
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  4. Parallax: Nikonians Photo Glossary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (parallax)

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.
noun:  (astronomy) The angle of seeing of the astronomical unit.
verb:  (transitive) To measure (a distance) based on parallax observations.
verb:  (animation) To produce an illusion of levels of distance by shifting layers at different rates.

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