Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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a. (context photography English) of or relating to a technique in which exposures are taken at fewer intervals than usual so that, on playback, a naturally slow process may be viewed at an accelerated pace
Usage examples of "time-lapse".
For whereas that notorious Dadaist nude had simply been a composite of events in sequence, a time-lapse of bodily motion as perceived by a single witness, what Argus now experienced was all possible dimensions of the world packed into his spherical visual space.
A time-lapse photo of the park below my writing window would show a greener, leafier afternoon than morning.
The whole sky turns dark as night and the clouds blow up on you like time-lapse vid. You can see the wind roaring along the surface of the ground, throwing shit up in the air, a big cloud of dust rolling in on you.
Her screen burgeons forth with the time-lapse image of an opening black rose.
The strange, the dreamlike (as in the time-lapse and space-lapse camerawork in The Graduate).
It looked exactly as if someone had taken a time-lapse movie of the development of a frost boil with the film being run at a normal speed.
This served to adapt the speed or the time-lapse rate of his own thoughts to the alien real-time of the Solitude Intelligence.
And here it came, rolling over the ground by the edge of the glacier, a low dark mass topped by a rolling cloud of dust, like time-lapse film of an approaching thunderhead, sound effects and all.
Their studies were based on lava flows at Steens Mountain in southern Oregon, where a volcano had erupted fifty-six separate times during a magnetic-field reversal, providing time-lapse snapshots of the action.