单词 | zoopraxiscope |
释义 | zoopraxiscope in American English (ˌzouəˈpræksəˌskoup) noun Films an early type of motion-picture projector, designed by Eadweard Muybridge, in which the images were drawings or photographs placed along the rim of a circular glass plate, the shutter was a rotating opaque disk with radial slots, and a limelight source was used Word origin [zoo- + praxi- as comb. form of Gk práxis action, praxis + -scope; term introduced by Muybridge about 1881, r. his own earlier term zoogyriscope]Examples of 'zoopraxiscope' in a sentence |
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