vitascope
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- vitascopic adjective
Etymology
Origin of vitascope
1890–95, < Latin vīta life + -scope
Example Sentences
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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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