hyalosign
/ˈhaɪəloʊˌsaɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In the context of Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, particularly in his work Cinema 2: The Time-Image, a specific type of cinematic image that embodies a fusion of the actual and the virtual, often illustrated through motifs like mirrors or crystals. These images disrupt linear temporality, creating a direct presentation of time in film.
Example Sentences
- "This is a progress in relation to the opsign : we saw how the crystal (the hyalosign) ensures the correlate of the opsign and the sonsign."
- "According to Deleuze, any shard of a crystal is a hyalo-sign (literally, a 'glass-sign'), which can either go opaque or clear, that is, it can act as transparent glass or as a mirror."
- "In other words, opsigns and sonsigns stymie the seamless flow of actual image to actual image; while the hyalosign links the actual image to a virtual correlate."
Etymology
From hyalo- + sign.