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Kanizsa triangles

Kanizsa triangles is the plural of Kanizsa triangle.

Meaning of Kanizsa triangle

Noun

Kanizsa triangle (plural Kanizsa triangles)

  1. An optical illusion in which a number of spatially separated fragments give the illusory impression of the contours of a triangle.
    • It is called a Kanizsa triangle, after the Italian psychologist Gaetano Kanizsa, who created it in 1955.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 67

Questions about Kanizsa triangles

What is Kanizsa triangles the plural of?
Kanizsa triangles is the plural of Kanizsa triangle.

Words near Kanizsa triangles in the dictionary

  1. Kaniuts
  2. Kaniv
  3. Kaniva
  4. kaniwa
  5. Kanizsa triangle
  6. Kanizsa triangles
  7. Kanjeevaram
  8. kanji
  9. kanjified
  10. kanjifies
  11. kanjify

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