"overview effect" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: overview effects [plural]
Etymology: Coined by Frank White in the 1980s, author of the 1987 book The Overview Effect — Space Exploration and Human Evolution, to describe the experience of astronauts when they see Earth from space. The first public use of the term was in a poster at a Space Studies Institute meeting in 1985. Head templates: {{en-noun}} overview effect (plural overview effects)
  1. The transcendental change of perception when one can view the Earth, or any other planetary object, within the universal context. Wikipedia link: Space Studies Institute Categories (place): Earth Translations (overview effect): effet de vue d'ensemble [masculine] (French)

Inflected forms

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