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kin-e-mat'o-graf, n. an arrangement by which a numerous series of photographs, taken at rapid intervals, and representing some moving scene, is shown on a screen at the same rapid rate at which they were taken, giving a moving representation of the original scene--less correct but more common form, CINEMAT'OGRAPH (sin-). [Gr. kin[=e]ma, kin[=e]matos, motion, graphein, to write.]

Contrivance for projecting in rapid succession on screen a series of instantaneous photographs, so as to give effect of motion. Hence kinematographic a. [French]

A contrivance by which a series of instantaneous photographs taken in rapid succession are projected on a screen with similar rapidity, so as to give a lifelike reproduction of the original moving scene. [Gr.]