slow motion

See also: slowmotion and slow-motion

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

slow motion (uncountable)

2. (cinematography) A technique of film, photography, and video in which time is stretched in order to allow the visibility of things normally happening too fast to be conveniently examined.

   Synonyms: slo-mo, slowmo

   Coordinate term: fast forward

3. (by extension) Movement at a slow pace.
   • 2023 June 28, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: 'There will be more Nunehams'”, in RAIL, number 986, page 3:

     Without this foresight, many more structures would now be suffering the fate of the viaduct at Nuneham, which was literally collapsing in plain sight (albeit in extreme slow motion).

Derived terms

• digital slow motion
• slow-motion
• slow-motional
• trainwreck in slow motion

Translations

film stretched in time

• Catalan: càmera lenta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慢動作 / 慢动作 (zh) (màndòngzuò)

• Danish: slowmotion c
• Dutch: slow motion (nl) m
• Estonian: aegluubis
• Finnish: hidastus (fi), hidastuskuva
• French: ralenti (fr) m
• Galician: cámara lenta f
• German: Zeitlupe (de) f
• Greek: αργή κίνηση f (argí kínisi)
• Hebrew: הילוך איטי m
• Hungarian: lassított felvétel (hu)
• Indonesian: gerak lambat
• Italian: rallentatore (it) m, ralenti (it) m
• Japanese: スローモーション (ja) (surō mōshon)
• Korean: 슬로 모션 (seullo mosyeon)
• Malay: gerakan perlahan
• Persian: اسلوموشن (fa) (eslomowšen)
• Portuguese: câmara lenta f (chiefly Portugal), câmera lenta f (chiefly Brazil)
• Russian: уско́ренная киносъёмка f (uskórennaja kinosʺjómka) (accelerated filming), заме́дленное движе́ние n (zamédlennoje dvižénije)
• Spanish: cámara lenta (es) f, ralentí (es) m

References

• “slow motion”, in Collins English Dictionary.