dissolving view

American  

noun

1. an effect created by the projection of slides on a screen in such a way that each picture seems to dissolve into the succeeding one without an interval in between.

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Etymology

Origin of dissolving view

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

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dissolving view

It lost in beauty as it gained in strength, but it looked more like solid land and less like a fairy vision, more like possible fruit and vegetables and less like a dissolving view.

From White Fire by John Oxenham

But I began to feel like one who sees a distinctly focused picture shimmering to a dissolving view.

From The Blue Man From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

But what is most imperatively wanted, is persistently wanting,—namely some evidence of a series in which one form passes to another, as in a dissolving view.

From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John S.J. Gerard

The "sure conclusions" of Science that had stood foursquare in his boyhood had become like a dissolving view.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

Passersby no longer remained mere figures in a dissolving view, through whom one looked as if they were non-existent.

From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann