optical effects

plural noun

, Movies, Television.

1. special visual effects, as the wipe or dissolve, created in the camera or especially in a film laboratory by technicians using complex optical and electronic equipment.

Example Sentences

At first they seemed to be optical effects, as though the eye itself were playing tricks.

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These different optical effects are classed together under the name of anthelia (from Greek, opposite to, and Greek, the sun).

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Very different optical effects, however, follow if the rays from the various-coloured flames are made to pass through a prism.

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Hitherto it had been supposed that double stars were mere optical effects.

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There are other optical effects to be seen sometimes on the horizon somewhat resembling twilight.

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