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

As he turned and saw the boy, he instantly let the door in his hand fly back—not, however, before the quick young fellow had had a dissolving view of the interior.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree

The living medium through which they were uttered seemed slowly to melt away, and as in a dissolving view, the sublime teacher, the humble Galilean stood before them, and they heard his voice!

From The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss

The immediate change in my consciousness was in the nature of a dissolving view.

From The High Heart by Basil King

The feudal system has passed away like a dissolving view before the eyes of those who have lived in Japan during the last few years.

From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale

All this passes before us in the series of a long dissolving view, full of bright lights, and only less full of unlovely shadows.

From Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth by John Huntley Skrine