hyperlapse
noun
hyperlapse is a noun meaning “A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-L-A-P-S-E, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hyperlapse is hyperlapses.
What does hyperlapse mean?
noun
- 1
A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperlapse
- hyperlapses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperlapse?
Hyperlapse appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does hyperlapse come from?
From hyper- + lapse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).