(photography) of or relating to a technique in which exposures are taken at fewer intervals than usual so that, on playback, a naturally slow process may be viewed at an accelerated pace

A film or video using this technique.

(meteorology) The rate of change in an atmospheric variable, especially temperature, with increase of height.

(law) Of or relating to a statute that abrogates the common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.

plural of lapse rate

plural of time-lapse

(meteorology) The rate of decrease of temperature with height of a parcel of dry air lifted upward through the atmosphere with no addition or deletion of heat.

plural of adiabatic lapse rate

The quality of having lapsed.