Usually means: Optical toy blending two images.
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  6. thaumatrope: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. thaumatrope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Thaumatrope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. thaumatrope: FreeDictionary.org
  14. thaumatrope: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (thaumatrope)

▸ noun:  An optical toy made of a card with an image on each side; when twirled, the images appear to combine.
▸ noun:  A zoetrope.

Similar:
enorthotrope, electrotachyscope, tachyscope, twirligig, turnabout, flicker wheel, twirler, tourbillon, twister, whirlygig, more...

Types:
phenakistoscope, zoetrope, flip book, praxinoscope, stroboscope, tachistoscope, more...

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Similar:
enorthotrope, electrotachyscope, tachyscope, twirligig, turnabout, flicker wheel, twirler, tourbillon, twister, whirlygig, more...

Types:
phenakistoscope, zoetrope, flip book, praxinoscope, stroboscope, tachistoscope, more...



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