Usually means: Early device animating sequences of images.
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  1. zoopraxiscope: Merriam-Webster
  2. zoopraxiscope: Wiktionary
  3. zoopraxiscope: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. Zoopraxiscope, zoopraxiscope: Dictionary.com
  5. Zoopraxiscope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Zoopraxiscope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Zoopraxiscope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. zoopraxiscope: FreeDictionary.org
  9. zoopraxiscope: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. zoopraxiscope: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. zoopraxiscope: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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Definitions from Wiktionary (zoopraxiscope)

noun:  (photography, historical) An instrument developed by Eadweard Muybridge in the 1870's, similar to the phenakistoscope. The instrument involves a disc that includes serial pictures being rotated in front of a light source, projecting them upon a screen, to exhibit the natural movements of animals and the like.

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