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

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 Edmund Downey

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

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

From Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create by Lucien Price

And, like most dreams, is but a dissolving view.

From Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls by Fannie E. Newberry

As she entered, the scene broke up before her eyes like a dissolving view.

From The Rose-Garden Husband by Margaret Widdemer