Times, Sunday Times (2010) His caustic comments make wonderful copy, of course. Times, Sunday Times (2009) But over ten years, audiences have become less able to accept her caustic humour. The Sun (2010) Doctors feared she would die from horrific injuries caused by the 98 per cent strength caustic soda.
Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.
Definition of Phase Shift. With regard to wave motion, a phase shift represents the amount a wave has shifted horizontally from the original wave. Phase shifts are typically measured in degrees where a complete cycle is 360 degrees. In the diagram below, the second wave is shifted by the specified amount from the original wave: Because the horizontal axis denotes time, a phase shift represents a shift in time from the original wave.