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vitascope

American  
[vahy-tuh-skohp] / ˈvaɪ təˌskoʊp /

noun

  1. one of the first motion-picture projectors, developed by Thomas Edison.


vitascope British  
/ ˈvaɪtəˌskəʊp /

noun

  1. an early type of film projector

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of vitascope

1890–95, < Latin vīta life + -scope

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The vitascope is the principal name now in use for moving picture machines.

From Marvels of Modern Science by Severing, Paul

I'll invent the graphophone, the kodak, the vitascope, an' Milliken's cough syrup an' a lot of other big modern inventions.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

Of other moving pictures machines we have had the vitascope, vitagraph, magniscope, mutoscope, panoramagraph, theatograph and scores of others all derived from the two Greek roots grapho I write and scopeo I view.

From Marvels of Modern Science by Severing, Paul

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