is: a change in the apparent direction or position of an object due to movement of the observer. Objects at different distances from an observer will exhibit different amounts of parallax for a given movement of the observer. [P1.1]
can lead: to errors of measurement in situations where the measurement depends on the alignment of two objects such as the scale on a meter and a pointer indicating a reading on that scale. [P1.1]
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