Afterimage

Word AFTERIMAGE
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Afterimage"

What do we mean by afterimage?

A visual image that persists after the visual stimulus causing it has ceased to act. noun

An image which persists or remains in negative after the original stimulation has ended. noun

An image which persists or remains in negative after the original stimulation has ended.

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The word "afterimage" in example sentences

The afterimage is a simple consequence of adaptation of the rods and cones of the retina. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I watched her for a time, with that spicy scent lingering in my mind, and a kind of afterimage, too, of her coppery hair and the way her mouth looked when she smiled. ❋ Pronzini, Bill (1981)

"I use a continuous tone on my violin to establish a new relationship to listening, and he uses combinations of colored lights to address things that happen in the viewer's eye, such as afterimage and persistence of vision. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I am just an empty vessel, an afterimage of what I once was or was I once? ❋ Marc Lowe (2011)

The transition from rod to cone vision gradually unfolds; floods of afterimage color wash over the vision and gradually decrease like waves. ❋ John Seed (2011)

The second is the afterimage – Henry on the floor of their home, surrounded by their friends, bleeding. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When they could see again through the dazzling afterimage, the crucible was topped with a ghostly flame, translucent and radiant as the moonlight itself, rising twelve feet into the air. ❋ L.J. SMITH (2010)

Tally blinked away the afterimage of the flash, trying to force her exhausted brain to think. ❋ Scott Westerfeld (2010)

There was a bright flash—the screen going blindingly white—and a blue afterimage printed on her retinas. ❋ L.J. SMITH (2010)

Hence the denial that follows immediately upon the comparison ( "but not made in its afterimage"), a denial belied by the simile that succeeds it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When the brilliant afterimage, caused by that brief glance into the sun's dazzling face, had vanished from before his eyes, he returned once more to his instruments. ❋ Johnny Pez (2010)

The color Jenny had seen in afterimage when the computer flashed. ❋ L.J. SMITH (2010)

The afterimage was like the pain an amputee might still feel after he lost an arm or a leg. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When the audience was asked to close their eyes at the end of the ad, they were surprised to see the BMW logo as an afterimage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It says that consumers were then able to see this image on the inside of their eyes as an "afterimage." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Note that the afterimage of blue is yellow and vice versa. ❋ James Gurney (2010)

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