WordNet
n. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement" [syn: apparent motion, motion, movement]
Usage examples of "apparent movement".
From the moment of the Martians' onslaught we had seen no one alive, and even now the only apparent movement was the smoke.
But the next day, by taking the exact hour of the rising and setting of the sun, and by marking its position between this rising and setting, he reckoned to fix the north of the island exactly, for, in consequence of its situation in the Southern Hemisphere, the sun, at the precise moment of its culmination, passed in the north and not in the south, as, in its apparent movement, it seems to do, to those places situated in the Northern Hemisphere.
All apparent movement and substance, then, are of this secondary order - that which is explicate, unfolded, manifest in space and time, filled with kittens and quasars and the need to connect with others.
I'm sure it hadn't been there before, and I'm sure it hadn't been up his sleeve, but where it came from and how he got it without apparent movement will have to remain a Charonese secret.
She rotated around, swimming through space, so that she was facing in the direction of apparent movement.