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optical fusion

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Noun1.optical fusion - the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept
beholding, seeing, visual perception - perception by means of the eyes


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What one doesn't immediately realize is that the apparently single rotating cylinder is in fact an optical fusion of two different cylinders, one seen by the right eye, another seen by the left.
The texturing of disk surfaces prevents "stiction" -- the optical fusion of head and disk in the hard drive assembly, resulting in disk crashes -- and increases disk storage capacity.
 
 
 
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