ZOETROPE
\zˈə͡ʊtɹə͡ʊp], \zˈəʊtɹəʊp], \z_ˈəʊ_t_ɹ_əʊ_p]\
Definitions of ZOETROPE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
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An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.
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An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.
By Noah Webster.
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z[=o]'e-tr[=o]p, n. a scientific toy by which several pictures of objects or persons in various positions are combined into one visual impression, so as to give the appearance of movement or life--the Thaumatrope and Praxinoscope are variations.--adj. ZOETROP'IC. [Gr. z[=o][=e], life, tropos, a turning--trepein, to turn.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The stroboscope; it toy in which a number of pictures, closely alike, yet varying progressively in certain features, are brought into view in rapid succession by rotating a drumlike wheel in which they are laid, the effect being that the object portrayed seems to perform intrinsic movements; the prototype of the cinematoscope. [Gr., zoe life, + trope, a turning.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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[Gr.] A contrivance for producing the appearance of motion in figures by rotating plates. See Anorthoscope.
By Henry Percy Smith
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