I. kəˈlīdəˌskōp sometimes -lēd- noun
Etymology: Greek kal os beautiful + eidos form + English -scope — more at calli- , idol
1. : an instrument that contains loose fragments of colored glass confined between two flat plates and two plane mirrors placed at an angle of 60° so that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of symmetrical varicolored forms
2. : something resembling a kaleidoscope: as
a. : a variegated changing pattern or scene
the lake a kaleidoscope of changing colors — Robert Gibbings
b. : a succession of changing phases or actions
reduce all experience to a shifting kaleidoscope of meaningless incidents — John Dewey
her day … became a kaleidoscope of things embarked upon and left for other things — Adrian Bell
II. verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
intransitive verb
: to appear as if in a kaleidoscope
pictures of the lights and the planes spinning and crashing … kaleidoscoped through his mind — Howard Hunt
transitive verb
: to view as if in a kaleidoscope
poking … fun at our banalities and shortsightednesses as he kaleidoscopes them with the long view of man's cultural achievement — Henry Hewes