/zoh'euh prak"seuh skohp'/ , n. Motion Pictures.
an early type of motion-picture projector, designed by Eadweard Muybridge, in which the images were drawings or photographs placed along the rim of a circular glass plate, the shutter was a rotating opaque disk with radial slots, and a limelight source was used.
[ ZOO- + praxi- as comb. form of Gk práxis action, PRAXIS + -SCOPE; term introduced by Muybridge about 1881, r. his own earlier term zoogyriscope ]