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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bioscope \Bi"o*scope\, n. [Gr. bi`os life + -scope.] 1. A view of life; that which gives such a view. Bagman's Bioscope: Various Views of Men and Manners. [Book Title.] --W. Bayley (1824). 2. An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion + -graph.] 1. A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other common names for the cinematograph are {animatograph}, {biograph}, {bioscope}, {electrograph}, {electroscope}, {kinematograph}, {kinetoscope}, {veriscope}, {vitagraph}, {vitascope}, {zo["o]gyroscope}, {zo["o]praxiscope}, etc From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bioscope n 1: a South African movie theater 2: a kind of early movie projector
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