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anamorphoscopes

anamorphoscopes is the plural of anamorphoscope.

Meaning of anamorphoscope

Noun

anamorphoscope (plural anamorphoscopes)

  1. A mirrored device which gives a correct image of an anamorphosis.
    • The classical anamorphoscopes, he went on to explain, were mirrors, cylindrical or conical, usually, which when placed on or otherwise near a deliberately distorted picture, and viewed from the appropriate direction, would make the image appear “normal” again.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 280

Questions about anamorphoscopes

What is anamorphoscopes the plural of?
Anamorphoscopes is the plural of anamorphoscope.

Words near anamorphoscopes in the dictionary

  1. anamorphic
  2. anamorphically
  3. anamorphism
  4. anamorphisms
  5. anamorphoscope
  6. anamorphoscopes
  7. anamorphose
  8. anamorphosed
  9. anamorphoser
  10. anamorphosers
  11. anamorphoses

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