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English Dictionary: Animatograph by the DICT Development Group
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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[94]gyroscope}, {zo[94]praxiscope}, etc.
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