persistence of vision
per·sis·tence of vision
noun \pər-ˈsis-tən(t)s-, -ˈzis-\Definition of PERSISTENCE OF VISION
: a visual phenomenon that is responsible for the apparent continuity of rapidly presented discrete images (as in motion pictures or television) consisting essentially of a brief retinal persistence of one image so that it is overlapped by the next and the whole is centrally interpreted as continuous
