Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

paracontrast

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: para-con-trast
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A visual phenomenon where the perceived brightness of a stimulus is reduced when it is preceded by an adjacent visual stimulus.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"An apparatus for the demonstration of the phenomena of the time relations of visual stimuli, and of meta- and paracontrast."
"Masking between non-overlapping stimuli is termed paracontrast when the mask precedes the target, and metacontrast then the mask follows the target (equivalent to forward and backward masking between overlapping stimuli)."
"A particular type of forward masking, in which the target and mask are spatially nonoverlapping, as in metacontrast, is called paracontrast masking."

Etymology

From para- + contrast.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does paracontrast mean?: A visual phenomenon where the perceived brightness of a stimulus is reduced when it is preceded by an adjacent visual stimulus.
Where does paracontrast come from?: From para- + contrast.

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