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special effects

Special effects are visual illusions in a film or image, or the art of creating such illusions.

(noun)

An example of special effects is making it seem that a person is falling off a mountain and then making that person seem to scale back up the mountain.

See special effects in Webster's New World College Dictionary

artificial visual effects, either realistic or fantastic, used to create illusions in films
the art or work of creating these illusions
the complex mechanical devices and photographic techniques used to produce the effects

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