We found 12 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word Phenakistoscope:
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 General (11 matching dictionaries)
- Phenakistoscope, phenakistoscope: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- Phenakistoscope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Phenakistoscope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- phenakistoscope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- Phenakistoscope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- phenakistoscope: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
- phenakistoscope: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- phenakistoscope: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
- phenakistoscope: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
- phenakistoscope: Luciferous Logolepsy [home, info]
- Phenakistoscope: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
- phenakistoscope: online medical dictionary [home, info]
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Quick definitions (Phenakistoscope)
(n.) A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a screen.
(This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)
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