time-lapse

[ tahym-laps ]

adjective

1. done by means of time-lapse photography:

   a time-lapse study of the blooming of a flower.

Word History and Origins

Origin of time-lapse¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Time-lapse compilation from the Orange County #AirportFire burning up to the Santiago Peak infrastructure captured by ALERTCalifornia this AM.

From Los Angeles Times

Invisible until they’re ubiquitous, the signs at the Democratic National Convention burst into sight like a time-lapse photo of a poppy flower superbloom.

From Los Angeles Times

They used time-lapse 4-D imaging to methodically track the function of each gene throughout all embryonic stages, including when cell identity is determined and when the tissues in the organism take shape.

From Science Daily

This time-lapse video shows swirls of green, pink and scarlet moving across the sky over a residential area in Nottingham.

From BBC

To take pictures of such tiny objects, they used a transmission electron microscope, which shoots a beam of electrons through nanocrystals suspended inside a super-thin pocket of liquid to create time-lapse images of the chemistry taking place at 10 frames per second.

From Science Daily