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Meaning of metacontrast | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A reduction of the apparent brightness of illumination when an adjacent visual field is illuminated

Examples

“Stimuli with pixels that change just once have been employed by Sackur [20 ] for studying metacontrast masking rather than visible persistence; he displaced pixels instead of flipping them.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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