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metacontrast

noun

Etymology

From meta- + contrast.

  1. derived from contrā
  2. derived from contrastare
  3. borrowed from contraster
  4. prefixed as metacontrast — “meta + contrast”

Definitions

  1. A reduction of the apparent brightness of illumination when an adjacent visual field is…

    A reduction of the apparent brightness of illumination when an adjacent visual field is illuminated

    • Stimuli with pixels that change just once have been employed by Sackur [20 ] for studying metacontrast masking rather than visible persistence; he displaced pixels instead of flipping them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metacontrast. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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