Zoopraxiscope

Quick meaning: Zoopraxiscope is a noun meaning (photography, historical) An instrument developed by Eadweard Muybridge in the 1870's, similar to the phenakistoscope. The instrument involves a disc that includes serial pictures being rotated in front of a light source, projecting them upon a screen, to exhibit the natural movements of animals and the like.

Meaning

(photography, historical) An instrument developed by Eadweard Muybridge in the 1870's, similar to the phenakistoscope. The instrument involves a disc that includes serial pictures being rotated in front of a light source, projecting them upon a screen, to exhibit the natural movements of animals and the like.

Example Sentences

A few years before, he bought his youngest girl a zoopraxiscope for her birthday, though he alone kept playing with it, after she grew bored. Now those squadrons of flapping geese and parades of bucking broncos that come alive when the glass drum spins animate his brain.

Word Forms

• zoopraxiscopes
• zoopraxinoscope

Synonyms for zoopraxiscope

Depending on context, synonyms include zoogyroscope.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include zoogyroscope, projectoscope, phantoscope, bioscope, pantoscope, vibroscope.

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