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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Electrograph \E*lec"tro*graph\, n. [Pref. electro + -graph.]
1. An apparatus, controlled by electric devices, used to
trace designs for etching.
2. An instrument for the reproduction at a distance of
pictures, maps, etc., by means of electricity.
3. An image made by the R["o]ntgen rays; a sciagraph.
4. A cinematograph using the arc light.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Electrograph \E*lec"tro*graph\, n. [Electro- + -graph.]
A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of
electricity.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |