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slow motion
(slow mo¦tion)
noun
[
mass noun
]
the action of showing film or playing back video more slowly than it was made or recorded, so that the action appears much slower than in real life:
the scene was shown
in slow motion
[
as modifier
]
:
a slow-motion sequence
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