bioscope

American  

[bahy-uh-skohp] / ˈbaɪ əˌskoʊp /

noun

1. an early form of motion-picture projector, used about 1900.

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bioscope British  

/ ˈbaɪəˌskəʊp /

noun

1. a kind of early film projector

2. a South African word for cinema

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Etymology

Origin of bioscope

First recorded in 1895–1900; bio- + -scope

Example Sentences

Machen said the same had happened in South Africa, whose old bioscopes have closed down and where now all but two cinemas are in shopping malls, the exceptions being Cape Town’s Labia and Johannesburg’s Bioscope.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2019

Audiences at the Bioscope independent cinema sit in recycled car seats or on rooftops, while hipsters of all races mingle at the free First Wednesday screenings at Atlas Studios in Melville.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2015

Bioscope version 1.3 was used to align .csfasta and .qual files to SNP-substituted reference genomes for each accession using default parameters; this allows up to 10 locations per sequenced read.

From Nature • Mar. 13, 2013

I do not know if he be the author of the Bioscope which accompanied them; but whoever he is, if you can discover him, thank him from me most heartily.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle

The Bioscope contained an MS. copy of very excellent verses, from whom I know not, but evidently the composition of some one in the habit of writing, and of writing well.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle