invisibility
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thumb|By using two parabolic cylindric mirrors and one plane mirror, the image of the background is directed around an object, making the object itself invisible - at least from two sides.
Invisibility is the state of an object that cannot be seen. An object in this state is said to be invisible (literally, "not visible"). The phenomenon is studied by physics and perceptual psychology.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “invisibility” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.