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parallaxis
Greek · ancient
"an alteration, a change"
literally an alteration, a change, from parallassein (to change)
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parallax
English · 1580s
"the apparent shift of an object viewed from different positions"
settled as the astronomical term for an object's apparent shift when viewed from different positions
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