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What does time-lapse mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word time-lapse? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (photography) of or relating to a technique in which exposures are taken at fewer intervals than usual so that, on playback, a naturally slow process may be viewed at an accelerated pace
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We see time-lapse photography of plants springing to life and decaying, then images of floods, war and catastrophe.
Your DVR can replace both a time-lapse VCR and a multiplexer in a security installation.
It can be viewed in far shorter order, of course, since much of it is presented in the 16-minute video as time-lapse photography.
His face flushed from glimmering blue-white to a deathly pale grey, like a dying flower watched in time-lapse photography.
The film's stylistic time-lapse photography and multi-layered narrative isn't always successful.
It was like watching time-lapse photography of a cell dividing and growing.

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