A time-lapse is many pictures over hours played back as fast movement. Shoot a time-lapse.
It shows changes too slow to see, which is how a flower opening was first watched. A time-lapse of a building site compresses two years into ninety seconds.
1nountime-lapseMany pictures over hours played back as fast movement.
“The time-lapse of the sunrise took four hours to shoot.”
time-lapse is a film.
Time plus lapse, from the lapse of time between frames.
From time + lapse.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Photography & Film