kinetoscope
[ ki-nee-tuh-skohp, -net-uh-, kahy- ]
noun
an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.
Origin of kinetoscope
1Other words from kinetoscope
- ki·ne·to·scop·ic [ki-nee-tuh-skop-ik, -net-uh-, kahy-], /kɪˌni təˈskɒp ɪk, -ˌnɛt ə-, kaɪ-/, adjective
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How to use kinetoscope in a sentence
They constituted rather an accurate kinetoscope view of the yearly lives of chance passing workers in those trades.
Making Both Ends Meet | Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith WyattSwiftly, with a click like that of the mechanism in a kinetoscope, the scene changed.
The Quickening | Francis LyndeIt is not a vision neither is there a mere kinetoscope procession.
Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker | Meletios GoldenThe kinetoscope comes to aid the phonograph to make pictures of action and lasting records of music and of speech.
It takes this new invention, the kinetoscope, to bring us these panoramic drama-elements.
The Art Of The Moving Picture | Vachel Lindsay
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