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apparent motion (s) (noun), apparent motions (pl)
The movement of a celestial body against the background of distant stars: When lying on the ground on a cloudless night, Sam and his girlfriend watched the apparent motion of the stars caused by the finite speed of light and the movement of the Earth while orbiting around the Sun.
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