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De - Pt| English Dictionary: electroscope | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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[94]gyroscope}, {zo[94]praxiscope}, etc. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Electroscope \E*lec"tro*scope\, n. [Electro- + -scope: cf. F. [82]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. | |
