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Noun: shape constancy
  1. The tendency to perceive the shape of a rigid object as constant despite differences in the viewing angle (and consequent differences in the shape of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)

Derived forms: shape constancies

Type of: constancy, perceptual constancy

Encyclopedia: Shape constancy

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