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optical delusions

optical delusions is the plural of optical delusion.

Meaning of optical delusion

Noun

optical delusion (plural optical delusions)

  1. (dated) A vision or image that is deceptive or misleading, such as an optical illusion or a trick of the light.
    • I rubbed my eyes, thinking that I was the victim of some hallucination, or that the refraction from the intense light produced an optical delusion; and, as I did so, the flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Questions about optical delusions

What is optical delusions the plural of?
Optical delusions is the plural of optical delusion.

Words near optical delusions in the dictionary

  1. optical black hole
  2. optical black holes
  3. optical character recognition
  4. optical coherence tomography
  5. optical delusion
  6. optical delusions
  7. optical depth
  8. optical disc
  9. optical disc drive
  10. optical disc drives
  11. optical discs

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