zoetrope
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of zoetrope
1865–70; irregular < Greek zōḗ life + tropḗ turn
Example Sentences
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Fairytale is the third best-selling single of the week thanks to a limited-edition zoetrope vinyl, which was released on Friday.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025
All these form an enormous playground where monumental things happen at inopportune times, each song a zoetrope world built for consoling and commiserating with the pains of being pubescent.
From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023
By the time this 3-D zoetrope from 4-Mation is up to speed, your brain’s out to lunch—and those little amphibians are totally jumping.
From Slate • Dec. 12, 2017
The slide projector they’re using suddenly starts behaving like a demon-possessed zoetrope, and to the kids’ horror, the sharp-toothed Pennywise himself lunges into and out of the frame, obliterating the boundaries of the screen.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2017
Muybridge devised an instrument which he called a Zoopraxiscope for the optical projection of his zoetrope photographs.
From Marvels of Modern Science by Severing, Paul
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