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3 definitions found 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Electroscope \E*lec"tro*scope\, n. [Electro- + -scope: cf F. ['e]lectroscope.] (Physics) An instrument for detecting the presence of electricity, or changes in the electric state of bodies, or the species of electricity present, as by means of pith balls, and the like {Condensing electroscope} (Physics), a form of electroscope in which an increase of sensibility is obtained by the use of a condenser. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: electroscope n : detects electric charge; two gold leaves diverge owing to repulsion of charges with like sign
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