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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An optical toy consisting of a vertical cylindrical mirror which gives a correct image of a distorted picture drawn at the base on a plane at right angles to the axis of the mirror. See anamorphosis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A mirrored device which gives a correct image of an anamorphosis.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From anamorphosis + -scope.

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