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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cut in movie editing that represents a momentary omission in a continuous shot, creating an effect of discontinuity or acceleration.
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- noun A
cinematographic edit in which theview of asubject jumps forward intime
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- noun an immediate transition from one scene to another
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A cinematic technique used to disrupt narrative flow by arbitrarily omitting chunks from the middle of long continuous shots to dislocate any sense of progressive action. (From ArtLex)
June 4, 2008