slow motion

slow motion (uncountable)

1. A technique of film, photography, and video to stretch time and allow visibility of things normally happening too fast to be conveniently examined.
2. (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).

• slo-mo, slowmo

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

• “slow motion”, in Collins English Dictionary.