Kinetoscope
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Kinetoscope is a noun meaning An instrument for illustrating the production of kinematic curves by the combination of circular movements of different radii.
Meaning
An instrument for illustrating the production of kinematic curves by the combination of circular movements of different radii.
More Meanings
- 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.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- kinetoscopes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include kinetoscopy, kinetography, kinetograph, kinetogram, kinescope, eidoloscope.
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