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

Similarly we may hope that, at some future day, a mathematician, letting the fact-continuum of embryology play before his mind, which the palæontologists of the future will supposedly have enriched with more intermediate and derivative forms between Saurian and Bird than the isolated Pterodactyl, Archæopteryx, Ichthyornis, and so forth, which we now have—that such a mathematician shall transform, by the variation of a few parameters, as in a dissolving view, one form into another, just as we transform one conic section into another.

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

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On a May evening brewing thunder we did a dissolving view out of the city on a train for Cape Ann.

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“You’ll soon see,” was the brief reply; and, sure enough, almost immediately afterwards the brilliant landscape melted away like a dissolving view in a magic lantern, and a long stretch of barren down and rock and scrub was all that could be discerned.

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The mental picture which he had been tracing suddenly frayed and vanished like a dissolving view.

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