afterimage: Meaning and Definition of

af•ter•im•age

Pronunciation: (af'tur-im"ij, äf'-), [key]
— n. Psychol.
  1. a visual image or other sense impression that persists after the stimulus that caused it is no longer operative.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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