| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| anaglyph |
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| SYLLABICATION: | an·a·glyph |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n  -gl f |
| NOUN: | 1. An ornament carved in low relief. 2. A moving or still picture consisting of two slightly different perspectives of the same subject in contrasting colors that are superimposed on each other, producing a three-dimensional effect when viewed through two correspondingly colored filters. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Late Latin anaglyphus, carved in low relief, from Greek anagluphos : ana-, ana- + gluphein, to carve; see gleubh- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | ana·glyphic, ana·glyptic (-glptk) —ADJECTIVE
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