kinetoscope
kinetoscope noun: 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.
Noun
kinetoscope (plural kinetoscopes)
- 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.
- A paper-over-board book based on a new technology that its inventor, the author, calls “scanimation”: mimicking the effect of a kinetoscope, the pictures of animals, birds and fish seem to move with extraordinary naturalism.2008 January 13, Julie Just, “Bookshelf”, in New York Times
- An instrument for illustrating the production of kinematic curves by the combination of circular movements of different radii.
Forms of kinetoscope
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Origin of kinetoscope
From kineto- + -scope.
Words formed from kinetoscope
Questions about kinetoscope
- What does kinetoscope mean?
- Kinetoscope means 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.
- What part of speech is kinetoscope?
- Kinetoscope is a noun.
- What is the plural of kinetoscope?
- The plural of kinetoscope is kinetoscopes.
Words near kinetoscope in the dictionary
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