Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An apparatus, based on the principle of the zoëtrope, for projecting a great number of pictures of the same object in rapid succession upon a screen, thus producing the appearance of motion. Cinematograph, electroscope, kinographoscope, and veriscope are names applied to various machines essentially like the vitascope.

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

  • noun A form of machine for exhibiting animated pictures.

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Examples

  • The vitascope is the principal name now in use for moving picture machines.

    Marvels of Modern Science Paul Severing

  • -- Numerous instruments have been devised to determine the rate of vibration of different materials and structures, the most important being the _vitascope_, which has a revolvable cylinder, blackened with soot, and this being rotated at a certain speed, the stylus, which is attached to the vibrating body, in contact with the cylinder, will show the number per second, as well as the particular character of each oscillation.

    Practical Mechanics for Boys J. S. Zerbe

  • Of other moving pictures machines we have had the vitascope, vitagraph, magniscope, mutoscope, panoramagraph, theatograph and scores of others all derived from the two Greek roots _grapho_ I write and _scopeo_ I view.

    Marvels of Modern Science Paul Severing

  • I'll invent the graphophone, the kodak, the vitascope, an 'Milliken's cough syrup an' a lot of other big modern inventions.

    The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye 1897

  • Tibetans first called the cinema beskop, from "bioscope" one of the early terms for movies (as kinema, vitascope, etc.) and now apparently used only by South Africans, Nepalese and Tibetans.

    Phayul Latest News 2010

  • Tibetans first called the cinema beskop, from "bioscope" one of the early terms for movies (as kinema, vitascope, etc.) and now apparently used only by South Africans, Nepalese and Tibetans.

    Phayul Latest News 2010

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  • A motion-picture projection device patented by Thomas Edison and publicly exhibited in April 1896, giving credit to the original inventor, Thomas Armat, as the "designer." See Latham loop.

    March 7, 2007