zoopraxiscope

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zoopraxiscope - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Zoopraxiscope \Zo`o*prax"i*scope\, n. [Zoo- + Gr. ? a doing, an
     acting (from ? to do) + -scope.]
     An instrument similar to, or the same as, the, the
     phenakistoscope, by means of which pictures projected upon a
     screen are made to exhibit the natural movements of animals,
     and the like.
     [1913 Webster]

  Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion +
     -graph.]
     1. an older name for a movie projector, a machine,
        combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for
        projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly
        (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an
        objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the
        illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector;
        also, any of several other machines or devices producing
        moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie  projector
         are animatograph, biograph, bioscope,
        electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph,
        kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope,
        zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.
  
              The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is
              the result of the introduction of the flexible film
              into photography in place of glass.   --Encyc. Brit.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by
        the instrument described above.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]