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What is an after-image?

What is an after-image? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An image which persists or remains in negative after the original stimulation has ended.
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I looked up, and at each flash of lightning, an after-image of a bird was left.
Yet the image of the landscape lingered in his eyes, an after-image caused by the brilliant bolt of energy.
Set to Bartok, his ballet impressed itself strongly on the eye, but did not leave an equally strong after-image.
If you stare at a bright colour for a time and then look at a white surface, you will see an after-image, which will be the subtractive complement.
This music imprints itself on the mind like a retinal after-image, like a tattoo that will not fade.
When an image appears for a long time without refreshing the screen, an after-image remains.

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