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Meaning of "praxinoscope" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRAXINOSCOPE

praxinoscope  [ˈpræksɪnəˌskəʊp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRAXINOSCOPE

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Praxinoscope is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PRAXINOSCOPE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

praxinoscope

Praxinoscope

The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors, placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter and less distorted picture than the zoetrope offered. In 1889 Reynaud developed the Théâtre Optique, an improved version capable of projecting images on a screen from a longer roll of pictures. This allowed him to show hand-drawn animated cartoons to larger audiences, but it was soon eclipsed in popularity by the photographic film projector of the Lumière brothers.

Definition of praxinoscope in the English dictionary

The definition of praxinoscope in the dictionary is a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, give the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRAXINOSCOPE


arthroscope
ˈɑːθrəˌskəʊp
bioscope
ˈbaɪəˌskəʊp
bronchoscope
ˈbrɒŋkəˌskəʊp
chronoscope
ˈkrɒnəˌskəʊp
CinemaScope
ˈsɪnɪməˌskəʊp
colposcope
ˈkɒlpəˌskəʊp
diascope
ˈdaɪəˌskəʊp
gyroscope
ˈdʒaɪrəˌskəʊp
horoscope
ˈhɒrəˌskəʊp
kaleidoscope
kəˈlaɪdəˌskəʊp
laparoscope
ˈlæpərəˌskəʊp
laryngoscope
ləˈrɪŋɡəˌskəʊp
microscope
ˈmaɪkrəˌskəʊp
ophthalmoscope
ɒfˈθælməˌskəʊp
oscilloscope
ɒˈsɪləˌskəʊp
rotoscope
ˈrəʊtəˌskəʊp
spectroscope
ˈspɛktrəˌskəʊp
stereoscope
ˈstɛrɪəˌskəʊp
stethoscope
ˈstɛθəˌskəʊp
stroboscope
ˈstrəʊbəˌskəʊp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRAXINOSCOPE

prawle
prawn
prawn cocktail
prawn cracker
prawn-sandwich
prawn-sandwich brigade
prawner
praxeological
praxeology
praxes
praxis
Praxiteles
pray
prayer
prayer beads
prayer book
prayer mat
prayer meeting
prayer rug
prayer shawl

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRAXINOSCOPE

astronomical telescope
borescope
compound microscope
confocal microscope
cope
cystoscope
electron microscope
endoscope
fluoroscope
Hubble space telescope
Hubble telescope
kinescope
kinetoscope
mutoscope
otoscope
periscope
polariscope
radio telescope
scanning electron microscope
scope
telescope

Synonyms and antonyms of praxinoscope in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «praxinoscope» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRAXINOSCOPE

Find out the translation of praxinoscope to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of praxinoscope from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «praxinoscope» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

praxinoscope
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

praxinoscope
570 millions of speakers

English

praxinoscope
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

praxinoscope
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

praxinoscope
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

praxinoscope
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

praxinoscope
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

praxinoscope
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

praxinoscope
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Praxinoscope
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

praxinoscope
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

praxinoscope
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

praxinoscope
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Praxinoscope
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

praxinoscope
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

praxinoscope
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रॉक्सिनीस्कोप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

praxinoscope
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prassinoscopio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

praxinoscope
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

praxinoscope
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

praxinoscope
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

praxinoscope
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

praxinoscope
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

praxinoscope
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

praxinoscope
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of praxinoscope

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRAXINOSCOPE»

The term «praxinoscope» is normally little used and occupies the 138.360 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRAXINOSCOPE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about praxinoscope

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRAXINOSCOPE»

Discover the use of praxinoscope in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to praxinoscope and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded
The Praxinoscope: Separation/Isolation of the Figures Emile Reynaud's transformation of the zoetrope put this attraction/narration tension into play in a particularly apparent manner, as seen in his praxinoscope (1876), praxinoscope theater ...
Wanda Strauven, 2006
2
A History of Pre-cinema
THE. PRAXINOSCOPE: HOW. TO. MAKE. IT. By PliOFESSOS L UAHISS1A I7X ANY of my fellow-readers have doubtless already seen what is scientifically called a Thaumatrope (Greek, Sauna, marvel, prodigy, and, rporii, turn, revolution ).
Stephen Herbert, 2000
3
Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern ...
The Praxinoscope was a variation on the idea of the zoetrope, an optical device for the simulation of movement which was first built in the late 1830s. Rey- naud's essential modification consisted in constructing an open rotatable drum with a ...
Jonathan Crary, 2001
4
Nineteenth-century Scientific Instruments
134. opposite: [XXix^ 'Praxinoscope Theatre', patented in 1877 by Emile Reynard in Paris. This was an improvement on earlier moving picture machines, because instead of looking through .slits, the successive images were reflected in a ...
Gerard L'Estrange Turner, 1983
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Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism
Charles-Émile Reynaud, for instance, can be cited as having produced some of the earliest color “films”: hand-colored cell animations that he projected on a screen with his Projection Praxinoscope (patented 1877) and later with the more  ...
Joshua Yumibe, 2012
6
Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications
The box is provided with a double viewing aperture: one in the lid of the box and one in the inclined panel posited between the (opened) lid and the praxinoscope drum. The aperture in the inclined panel is covered with a reflecting piece of ...
Erkki Huhtamo, 2011
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Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952
Using a form of Zoetrope with printed bands of figures lining the insideof a rotating drumwith mirrors set at anglesin the center toreflect moving images, Emile Reynaud created in 1877 whathecalled the “Praxinoscope Theater.”By 1889 ...
Ray Zone, 2014
8
Eadweard Muybridge: The Kingston Museum Bequest
The Kingston Museum Bequest. Praxinoscope, with Muybridge horse strip ( Replicas) In June W.B. Tegetmeier, editor of the English sporting paper The Field , stated that he had mounted Muybridge photographs in a zoetrope: The action of the ...
‎2004
9
Guidebook to Film: An Eleven-in-one Reference
Praxinoscope: A precinema device for viewing images in motion. lt was invented in 1877 by Charles Emile Reynaud and consisted of a horizontal wheel on the inner rim of which a series of still photographs was affixed. At the center of the ...
Ronald Gottesman, Harry M. Geduld, 1972
10
Action!: Acting Lessons for CG Animators
The last of the important pre-film animation devices created was the praxinoscope (or action viewer), invented in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. This device used a cylinder like the zoetrope, but mounted a series of mirrors onto a smaller ...
John Kundert-Gibbs, Kristin Kundert-Gibbs, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRAXINOSCOPE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term praxinoscope is used in the context of the following news items.
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On Repeat: How to Use Loops to Explain Anything
The praxinoscope used mirrors to achieve the same result — reflected pictures on the inside of a spinning cylinder appeared as a moving ... «ProPublica, Jun 15»
2
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Jouet Jouyeux (1979), a short film by Borowczyk based on Charles-Émile Reynaud's praxinoscope (2:17): A recently discovered animation by ... «Krank.ie, Jun 15»
3
DVD Review – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne …
... composer Bernard Parmegiani and Happy Toy (1979), a short film by the artist based on Charles-Émile Reynaud's praxinoscope. «Flickering Myth, May 15»
4
A guide to museums in Dubai
Praxinoscope. And a Kaiser panorama. These wonderfully named objects are just some of the 200 artefacts on display at the Dubai Museum Of ... «What's On, May 15»
5
The 12 Most WIRED Places to Take Your Mom on Mother's Day
For example, Mom can send ping-pong balls down a massive toothpick sculpture and get crazy with a robot-themed praxinoscope. An extra ... «Wired, May 15»
6
Varisco's 'Turning' wins first Living With Water arts pitch
The viewer can spin the cylinders which will be located on ball bearings and will turn as smoothly as a large praxinoscope but only taller and ... «NolaVie, Mar 15»
7
Friday A/V Club: GIFs of the 19th Century
Here, for example, are six praxinoscope strips that Balzer collected, all crafted by the French animator Émile Reynaud in the 1880s: I especially ... «Reason, Oct 14»
8
Explore the Science of Animation at OMSI
The Praxinoscope uses mirrors to make it look like the beads are moving up and down the poles when you spin it. Photo: Jonathan H. Liu. «GeekDad, Sep 14»
9
14 Charming GIFs Made From the Smithsonian's Steampunk Prints
It featured a monkey jumping over a fence, and he adapted it from old film from a praxinoscope, a device from the 1800s that was half slide ... «Wired, Aug 14»
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These whimsical GIFs from Smithsonian Libraries bring old books to …
It began in April 2012 when Naples was looking through the institution's digital library and came across a praxinoscope, a late 19th Century ... «Washington Post, Aug 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Praxinoscope [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/praxinoscope>. Apr 2024 ».
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