kinetoscope

[ ki-nee-tuh-skohp, -net-uh-, kahy- ]

noun

1. an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.

Other Words From

• ki·ne·to·scop·ic [ki-nee-t, uh, -, skop, -ik, -net-, uh, -, kahy-], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of kinetoscope¹

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65; kineto- + -scope

Example Sentences

They constituted rather an accurate kinetoscope view of the yearly lives of chance passing workers in those trades.

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Swiftly, with a click like that of the mechanism in a kinetoscope, the scene changed.

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It is not a vision neither is there a mere kinetoscope procession.

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The kinetoscope comes to aid the phonograph to make pictures of action and lasting records of music and of speech.

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It takes this new invention, the kinetoscope, to bring us these panoramic drama-elements.

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