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n. The number of times an imaging or display device produces unique consecutive images (frames) in one second.
Usage examples of "frames per second".
Mister Gench contends that the notorious sledgehammer sequence, cited by reviewers and critics as a grisly triumph of the latest in special effects technology, actually took place and was filmed with an ultra high speed sixteen millimeter camera at up to two hundred forty frames per second, requiring from four to ten times the lighting employed in routine production shots.
The same thing is true of movies and projectors, in terms of film size and frames per second.
Unlike a TV channel, which transmitted thousands of bits of data per frame, thirty frames per second, the ELF radio passed on data slowly, about one character every thirty seconds.
He of all people would have relished the ding-dong, and he, unlike everyone else, would have been there with his lens sharply focused, pointing the right way and taking inexorable notes at three-point-five frames per second.
We're looking from the left-wing camera which is running at ninety-six frames per second.
Yaeger was not an expert on the construction of sixteenth-century galleons, but he produced a respectable image of one rolling slowly on the waves that was equal to a projector displaying moving graphics at sixty frames per second.
It was a QuickTime digital transmission--only five frames per second.
If we know the number of frames per second of that film we can measure the speed of the avalanche very accurately and in detail.
The helmet visuals were low-grade monochrome at only nine frames per second, but they were wrapped three-sixty, and sometimes revealed more than the marines themselves had seen.
Blaring horns, shrieking sirens, the sour stink of ten million people, all streaming by at a thousand frames per second.