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  2. Dazzle camouflage - Wikipedia

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    Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...

  3. Glare (vision) - Wikipedia

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    This could arise for instance when driving westward at sunset. Disability glare is often caused by the inter-reflection of light within the eyeball, reducing the contrast between task and glare source to the point where the task cannot be distinguished. When glare is so intense that vision is completely impaired, it is sometimes called dazzle.

  4. Camouflage - Wikipedia

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    A soldier applying camouflage face paint; both helmet and jacket are disruptively patterned. Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else. Examples include the leopard 's spotted coat, the battledress ...

  5. Flash blindness - Wikipedia

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    Flash blindness is an either temporary or permanent visual impairment during and following exposure of a varying length of time to a light flash of extremely high intensity, such as a nuclear explosion, flash photograph, lightning strike, or extremely bright light, i.e. a searchlight, laser pointer, landing lights or ultraviolet light. [1]

  6. Dazzle - Wikipedia

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    Dazzle (manga), a Japanese manga series by Minari Endoh. "Dazzle" (song), a song by Siouxsie & the Banshees. Dazzle camouflage, a paint scheme used on ships during World War I. Dazzle, an American disco act featuring Leroy Burgess. Dazzle, a 1990 novel by Judith Krantz. Dazzle, a 1995 TV miniseries adaptation of Krantz's novel starring Lisa ...

  7. World War II US Navy dazzle camouflage measures 31, 32 and 33 ...

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    Dazzle consists in painting obtrusive patterns on vertical surfaces. Unlike some other forms of camouflage, dazzle works not by offering concealment but by making it difficult to estimate a target's range, speed and heading. Each ship's dazzle pattern was unique to make it more difficult for the enemy to recognize different classes of ships.

  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus. A thesaurus ( pl.: thesauri or thesauruses ), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where you can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  9. Virtuoso - Wikipedia

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    Virtuoso. A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso, Italian: [virˈtwoːzo] or Italian: [virtuˈoːso]; Late Latin virtuosus; Latin virtus; 'virtue', 'excellence' or 'skill') is an individual who possesses outstanding talent and technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or ...