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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Illusory bands of intensified lightness and darkness perceived adjacent to the borders of light and dark in a visual image, caused by image processing in the retina and optic nerve.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Ernst Mach, who discovered them.]
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