add. ·noun a machine, for the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. the observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the impression of continuous motion.
KINETOSCOPE
Meaning of KINETOSCOPE in English
Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012