How to Use parallax in a Sentence

parallax

noun

• This parallax method then reveals the distance of the nearer stars.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2022
• Next, place your off hand on top of the scope, with the fatty heel of the thumb on the top turret, or the side parallax-adjustment turret if the scope has one.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 26 Nov. 2020
• And yet, no matter how acute your vision was, nobody had ever observed a parallax for any of the stars in the sky.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• Scientists use the parallax effect to measure the distances to stars.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 June 2020
• Due to parallax, the change in apparent motion for this and the bullet will be slightly different.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 17 Jan. 2020
• The 30mm version also has a very precise parallax focus knob.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 18 Aug. 2020
• Put simply, a parallax is when an object’s position changes based on the observer’s point of view.
  — Candice Wang, Popular Science, 19 June 2020
• That apparent movement is parallax, and nearby stars do the exact same thing against a background sky.
  — Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2016
• Thankfully, Hansen says there are more than a few ways to trick our brain into creating parallax.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
• The high alleged speeds and turn rates of the objects reported by some witnesses are not shown in the video, but could easily be explained by parallax.
  — Andrew Follett, National Review, 21 May 2021
• With Gaia, astronomers have measured the distance of a few hundred of these types of varying-brightness stars using parallax.
  — Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2016
• And every tester struggled to turn the extremely stiff parallax dial.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 18 Aug. 2020
• The stars appeared to be in different locations through the parallax effect, meaning that the stars seemed to shift against the background since New Horizons was viewing it from a different view point.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 June 2020
• The parallax effect also offers a more mundane explanation of the Go Fast video, West contends.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
• Sure enough, the new WWE Network includes parallax effects and more visual flair throughout the experience.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 30 July 2019
• James Bradley, working in the 1720s, might offer a better starting point for serious work on attempting to observe parallax.
  — Jeffrey Wilkerson, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2016
• Despite that prediction, no parallax was ever observed for more than 1000 years.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• And because parallax shift is proportional to the distance between the objects in view, a flattish curtain raises fewer problems than, say, trees in a field.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• During the competition, the robot’s head could be seen shifting from side to side as the operator used parallax to understand how far away objects were.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
• The team also has made record breaking measurements of parallax, a term that, boiled down, means a measurement of distance between objects in relation to each other.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
• In virtual production, a video game engine tracks the motion of the camera to create effects such as parallax scrolling, where objects that are supposed to be farther from the camera move slower than objects in the foreground.
  — Trevor Fraser, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2022
• That’s the idea behind a parallax—that a more complete version of a story or image is possible when it’s experienced through multiple perspectives.
  — Laura Hudson, Wired, 29 Jan. 2020
• The technology to create the giant aquarium includes enormous high-definition screens that use motion parallax, a technique that shifts the parkgoer's perspective of the dinosaur as the creature moves through the tank.
  — Hugo Martin, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• The Cintiq Pro line offers some higher-end features that the regular Cintiq line doesn’t have, like 4K resolution, more accurate colors, and better optical bonding, which reduces parallax, or the distance between the pen and the screen.
  — Dami Lee, The Verge, 18 July 2019
• During another scene, a little boy races through a forest, triggering a parallax scrolling effect that creates an illusion of depth by moving the background images more slowly than foreground images.
  — Laura Hudson, Wired, 29 Jan. 2020
• By carefully directing light, Sharp's display uses a filter called a parallax barrier to transform that blur into 3-D magic – no lame eyewear required.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2003
• This information, along with the parallax distance, enabled The Times to calculate the balloon’s height using the geometric properties of similar triangles.
  — Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• The researchers used an old method called trigonometric parallax, which calculates distance by tracking a single celestial object's apparent shift in position as seen from Earth's orbit in two separate places, months apart.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 14 Oct. 2017
• The first rung—that is, the one concerning the nearest cosmic objects—relies on geometric parallax to determine the distance to special stars called Cepheid variables, which pulsate in proportion to their intrinsic luminosity.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2022
• The engine’s constraints forced tricks and fixes, like using parallax effects to mimic perspectives that are otherwise impossible in a 2D world, or generating entirely new spaces just to fake a mirror effect.
  — Will Pritchard, Wired, 13 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024