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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
an optical effect formed when one family of curves is superposed on another, the lines of the overlapping figures crossing at an angle less than about 45°; the moiré lines are then the locus of the points of intersection
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From moiré + pattern.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
