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Cinematograph

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Chiefly British A movie camera or projector.

n. Chiefly British A movie theater.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A camera that could develop its own film and served as its own projector.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. 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, zoögyroscope, zoöpraxiscope, etc.

n. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An instrument devised in France for projecting on a screen photographs showing objects in motion.

To photograph with a cinematograph; to make a succession of photographic pictures of objects in motion. Also kinematograph.

Word Usage

"Jules, who had found a sheep-pond in the dark a little lower down, gave what you might call a cinematograph reproduction o 'sporadic musketry."

Variant

movie projector animatograph biograph bioscope electrograph

Form

cinema cinematography

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

kinematograph

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

motion picture first-run five-cent kinematograph penny-in-the-slot