A simple optical device using slides to display a magnified image on a white screen, wall, etc., in a darkened room. Also figurative.

A kind of magic lantern showing a series of pictures illustrative of some occurrence, invented by Philip de Loutherbourg 1780.

A magic lantern made to project images of both opaque and transparent objects.

A magic lantern or projector by which the image on a transparent slide or the like is projected on to a screen, wall, etc. Cf. epidiascope, n., epi…

Film. Originally: a device which projects an enlarged image of a single frame of filmed live action on to a frosted glass screen, so that it can be…

spec. = magic lantern, n. Chiefly attributive (see compounds 1a).