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.
Due to foreshortening, nearby objects show a larger parallax than farther objects when observed from different positions, so parallax can be used to determine distances. To measure large distances, such as the distance of a planet or a star from Earth, astronomers use the principle of parallax. Here, the term parallax is the semi-angle of inclination between two sight-lines to the star, as observed when Earth is on opposite sides of the Sun in its orbit.