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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024zo•o•prax•i•scope (zō′ə prak′sə skōp′),USA pronunciation n. [Motion Pictures.]- Cinemaan 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.
- term introduced by Muybridge about 1881, replacing his own earlier term zoogyriscope zoo- + praxi- as combining form of Greek práxis action, praxis + -scope
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