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multiple exposure

multiple exposure noun: a photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light more than one time, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter repeatedly, thereby generating a picture consisting of superimposed images.

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Noun

multiple exposure (plural multiple exposures)

  1. A photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light more than one time, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter repeatedly, thereby generating a picture consisting of superimposed images.
    • ECLIPSE IN NEW YORK — this multiple exposure shows stages of the solar eclipse, starting at top left, as seen in New York City Monday afternoon.1972 July 11, "Eclipse in New York (photo caption)," Victoria Advocate (Texas, USA), p. 1 (retrieved 11 Aug. 2011)
    • [W]ith a film camera . . . to take a good multiple exposure . . . your camera needed to have a special control that prevented the film from advancing while you captured each frame in the series. . . . These days, creating a multiple exposure digitally is a snap.2008 February 18, Dave Johnson, “How to Make Multiple Exposures”, in PC World, retrieved 11 Aug 2011
  2. The process of producing such a photograph.
    • Mr. Telberg-von-Teleheim's method is that of multiple exposure, either in the camera when taking the picture, or in the enlarger when making the print.1948 September 26, Jacob Deschin, “Two Kinds of Work: Mental ‘Views’ Contrasted With Pictures of Fact”, in New York Times, page X13

Forms of multiple exposure

pluralmultiple exposures
alternative formmultiple-exposure

Questions about multiple exposure

What does multiple exposure mean?
Multiple exposure means a photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light more than one time, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter repeatedly, thereby generating a picture consisting of superimposed images.
What part of speech is multiple exposure?
Multiple exposure is a noun.
What is the plural of multiple exposure?
The plural of multiple exposure is multiple exposures.

Words near multiple exposure in the dictionary

  1. multiple dispatch
  2. multiple dispatches
  3. multiple evanescent white dot syndrome
  4. multiple expansion
  5. multiple expansions
  6. multiple exposure
  7. multiple exposures
  8. multiple fruit
  9. multiple fruits
  10. multiple inheritance
  11. multiple intelligences

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