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persist'ence of vi'sion

the retention of a visual image for a short period of time after the removal of the stimulus that produced it: the phenomenon that produces the illusion of movement when viewing motion pictures.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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