cinematograph

noun

1. A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other common names for the cinematograph are <i>animatograph</i>, <i>biograph</i>, <i>bioscope</i>, <i>electrograph</i>, <i>electroscope</i>, <i>kinematograph</i>, <i>kinetoscope</i>, <i>veriscope</i>, <i>vitagraph</i>, <i>vitascope</i>, <i>zo&ouml;gyroscope</i>, <i>zo&ouml;praxiscope</i>, etc.

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   Source: webster1913