Kinetoscope

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  • n. An early device for exhibiting motion pictures, creating the illusion of movement from a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images that is conveyed over a light source with a high-speed shutter.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope.
  • n. An obsolete form of moving picture viewer, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the impression of continuous motion. It has been superseded by more recent versions of movie projector and electronic video viewers.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A kind of movable panorama.
  • n. An instrument for illustrating the results of combinations of arcs of different radii in making curves. Also called kinescope.
  • n. An apparatus invented by Edison for exhibiting photographic pictures of objects in motion.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a device invented by Edison that gave an impression of movement as an endless loop of film moved continuously over a light source with a rapid shutter; precursor of the modern motion picture
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    kinescope   
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