bioscope
Americannoun
noun
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a kind of early film projector
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a South African word for cinema
Etymology
Origin of bioscope
Example Sentences
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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
The Bioscope, or Dial of Life Explained appeared in 1812.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
Bioscope films were projected by Mr. I. Joshua, the chairman of the A.P.O.,
From Native Life in South Africa by Plaatje, Sol (Solomon Tshekisho)
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