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

The second dissolving view has disappeared; and the last slowly grows before our sight.

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah

I wish I had not to add that it was a dissolving view that rapidly disappeared in my cook's breeches-pocket.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund

But ships and flags, explorers and natives, fade like a dissolving view.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by Lyman, William Denison

Constant always in her faith in human nature, and in her zeal for the emancipation of Italy, the dissolving view before her could leave her no other fixed belief.

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward

Rattling good fellows they were to me, and under their benign influence the petty trials and inconveniences of the past seven or eight weeks faded away like a dissolving view.

From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by Ross, P. T.