kinetoscope en · NOUN
Etymology
From kineto- + -scope.
Meanings
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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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| kinetoscopes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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fr kinétoscope (Translations)