Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A movie camera or projector.
- noun A movie theater.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To photograph with a cinematograph; to make a succession of photographic pictures of objects in motion. Also
kinematograph . - noun An instrument devised in France for projecting on a screen photographs showing objects in motion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an older name for a
movie projector , a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for themovie projector areanimatograph ,biograph ,bioscope ,electrograph ,electroscope ,kinematograph ,kinetoscope ,veriscope ,vitagraph ,vitascope ,zoögyroscope ,zoöpraxiscope , etc. - noun A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A
camera that coulddevelop its ownfilm and served as its ownprojector .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Jules, who had found a sheep-pond in the dark a little lower down, gave what you might call a cinematograph reproduction o 'sporadic musketry.
A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900
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These pictures, which they recognised as an immeasurable development of what is called the cinematograph process on Earth, extended through the whole gamut of the satellite's life.
A Honeymoon in Space George Chetwynd Griffith 1881
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We hardly do anything else than set going a kind of cinematograph inside us….
Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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We hardly do anything else than set going a kind of cinematograph inside us….
Psyche and Cinema: Hume, James, and Bergson Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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He would, of course, like to move, but he cannot, because he is obliged to contemplate the kind of cinematograph of which the teacher speaks in the series of images she suggests, though they exist only in the shape of pieces of wood all of the same size.
Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911
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Whether we would think becoming, or express it, or even perceive it, we hardly do anything else than set going a kind of cinematograph inside us.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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"cinematograph," the actual position of the legs in a galloping horse at any given fraction of a second was unknown.
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Inheriting his father's cinematograph, the young Motl Mendl is persuaded to settle in the shtetl and document local life in moving pictures.
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Ponting hauled his cinematograph camera on to the Terra Nova in 1910 and tagged along for a while on Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition.
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The city became the birthplace of the cinema in 1895, when the Lumi è re brothers invented the cinematograph camera.
Lyon Offers Business Travelers a Central Hub Javier Espinoza 2011
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