Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
per·sis·tence of vision Pronunciation:
p&r-'sis-t&n(t)s-, -'zis- Function:
noun : a visual phenomenon that is responsiblefor the apparent continuity of rapidly presented discrete images (as in motion pictures or television) consisting essentially of a brief retinal persistence of one image so that it is overlapped by thenext and the whole is centrally interpreted as continuous
