"optical illusion" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: optical illusions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} optical illusion (plural optical illusions)
  1. An image that is visually deceptive or misleading. Wikipedia link: optical illusion Categories (topical): Vision Hypernyms: optical delusion Translations (image that is visually deceptive or misleading): خداع بصري (Arabic), ilusión óptica [feminine] (Asturian), il·lusió òptica [feminine] (Catalan), 視覺效果 (Chinese Mandarin), 视觉效果 (shìjué xiàoguǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), 視錯覺 (Chinese Mandarin), 视错觉 (shìcuòjué) (Chinese Mandarin), optický klam [masculine] (Czech), gezichtsbedrog [neuter] (Dutch), optinen harha (Finnish), näköharha (Finnish), illusion d’optique [feminine] (French), optische Täuschung [feminine] (German), દૃષ્ટિભ્રમ (dŕṣṭibhram) (Gujarati), אשליה אופטית (ashlaya optit) [feminine] (Hebrew), optikai csalódás (Hungarian), sjónvilla (Icelandic), illusione ottica [feminine] (Italian), 錯視 (sakushi) (alt: さくし) (Japanese), 目の錯覚 (me no sakkaku) (alt: めのさっかく) (Japanese), optesch Illusioun (Luxembourgish), optesch Täuschung (Luxembourgish), optisk illusjon (Norwegian), optisk bedrag (Norwegian), synsbedrag (Norwegian), illusion d'optica (Occitan), złudzenie optyczne [neuter] (Polish), ilusão de óptica [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), ilusão de ótica [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), опти́ческая иллю́зия (optíčeskaja illjúzija) [feminine] (Russian), optična iluzija (Slovene), optična prevara (Slovene), ilusión óptica [feminine] (Spanish), synvilla [common-gender] (Swedish), pangas (Tagalog), опти́чна ілю́зія (optýčna iljúzija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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