phenakistoscopic
phenakistoscopic adjective: of or relating to the phenakistoscope.
Adjective
phenakistoscopic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the phenakistoscope.
- A modified form of the phenakistoscope, in which the usual figures of horsemen, &c., are replaced in the revolving disk by a double set of highly-coloured circular arcs, all passing through the centre of motion, and intersecting each other, pair and pair, in such a way that the limbs exhibit a...1856, “CHRO’MOTROPE, n.”, in John Ogilvie, editor, A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific: […], Glasgow; Edinburgh; London: Blackie and Son, […], page 95...
- Dear Doctor [Henry G. Wright],—I heard nothing of Mr. [Antoine] Claudet’s paper on the possibility of producing a series of phenakistoscopic figures by means of photography, nor yet of the probability of rendering such appearances more life-like by means of the stereoscope.[…]The phenakistoscopic...1865 October 16, Henry Mayhew, “On Stereoscopic Phenakistoscopy. To the Editor of the Photographic Journal.”, in Hugh W[elch] Diamond, editor, The Photographic Journal, Being the Journal of the...
Forms of phenakistoscopic
| alternative form | phenakistiscopic |
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Origin of phenakistoscopic
From phenakistoscope + -ic.
Questions about phenakistoscopic
- What does phenakistoscopic mean?
- Phenakistoscopic means of or relating to the phenakistoscope.
- What part of speech is phenakistoscopic?
- Phenakistoscopic is an adjective.
Words near phenakistoscopic in the dictionary
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