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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A toy similar to the thaumatrope, consisting of a card on different parts of which are detached portions of a picture, which on rapid revolution appear to become joined, by virtue of the principle of persistence in visual impressions. See
thaumatrope .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See
thaumatrope .
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