'Kinetoscope' definitions:

Definition of 'Kinetoscope'

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noun
A device invented by Edison that gave an impression of movement as an endless loop of film moved continuously over a light source with a rapid shutter; precursor of the modern motion picture

Definition of 'Kinetoscope'

From: GCIDE
  • Kinetoscope \Ki*ne"to*scope\, n. [Originally a tradename, 1894.] An obsolete form of moving picture viewer, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the impression of continuous motion. It has been superseded by more recent versions of movie projector and electronic video viewers. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Definition of 'kinetoscope'

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  • kinetoscope \ki*ne"to*scope\ (k[-i]*n[=e]`t[-o]*sk[=o]p; 277), n. [Gr. kinhto`s movable + -scope.] An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope. --Cope. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'kinetoscope'

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  • 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.]