"time-lapse" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈtaɪmˌlæps/
Etymology: From time + lapse. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|time|lapse}} time + lapse Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} time-lapse (not comparable)
  1. (photography) 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. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Photography Derived forms: time-lapse cinematography, time-lapse cinemicrography, time-lapse microscopy, time-lapse phonography, time-lapse photography, time-lapse seismic data Translations (photographic technique): تايم لابس (Arabic), filmació a intervals (Catalan), 縮時攝影 (Chinese Mandarin), 缩时摄影 (Chinese Mandarin), aegvõte (Estonian), ajastettu (Finnish), accéléré [masculine] (French), Zeitraffer [feminine] (German), time-lapse (Italian), 低速度撮影 (Japanese), time-lapse (fotografija) (Lithuanian), (ekspozycja) poklatkowa [feminine] (Polish), filmagem em intervalos [feminine] (Portuguese), acelerado [masculine] (Portuguese), замедленная киносъёмка (zamedlennaja kinosʺjómka) (Russian), time-lapse [masculine] (Spanish), intervallfotografering [common-gender] (Swedish), tidsförkortning [common-gender] (Swedish)
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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈtaɪmˌlæps/ Forms: time-lapses [plural]
Etymology: From time + lapse. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|time|lapse}} time + lapse Head templates: {{en-noun}} time-lapse (plural time-lapses)
  1. A film or video using this technique. Synonyms: time lapse, timelapse Related terms: stop-motion
    Sense id: en-time-lapse-en-noun-HssLUptt

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.