zoopraxiscope
Noun
Meaning
An instrument similar to, or the same as, the, the phenakistoscope, by means of which pictures projected upon a screen are made to exhibit the natural movements of animals, and the like.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
kinetoscope
zoetrope
phenakistoscope
film projector
magic lantern
praxinoscope
stroboscope
thaumatrope
mutoscope
cinematograph
flip book
zoogyroscope
animated film device
motion picture viewer
moving image apparatus
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Examples
During the 1870s, Eadweard Muybridge began recording motion photographically and invented a zoopraxiscope with which to view his recordings.
He copied the images in the form of silhouettes onto a disc to be viewed in a machine he had invented, which he called a " zoopraxiscope ".