persistence of vision

Presistance of vision, as defined by Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary:

Pronunciation: pr-sis-tn(t)s-, -zis-

Function: noun

: visual phenomenon that is responsible for the apparent continuity of rapidly presented discrete images (as in motion pictures or television) consisting essentially of a brief retinal persistence of one image so that it is overlapped by the next and the whole is centrally interpreted as continuous