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Magic lantern
An early light projector and precursor to the slide projector that could achieve simple animation by moving and merging images.
📖 Definitions of "Magic lantern"
noun
- 1
An early light projector and precursor to the slide projector that could achieve simple animation by moving and merging images.
- 2
A slide projector.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Magic lantern"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| moviolanoun | (film, historical) An early machine allowing a film editor to view the film while editing it. |
| motion picturenoun | A movie. |
| magitiannoun | Obsolete form of magician. [A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.] |
| motionnoun | (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another. |
| mouse millnoun | (historical) An early electric motor resembling a small treadmill. |
| antimasquenoun | A comic or grotesque dance presented before or between the acts of a masque. |
| masquenoun | A facial mask. |
| smoke machinenoun | A device that emits a dense vapour that appears similar to fog or smoke, used in theatre, film and other applications. |
| moonglownoun | moonlight |
| supermarionettenoun | One of the motorized marionettes used in Supermarionation. |
| magnetariumnoun | (historical) An instrument for illustrating the magnetism of the earth. |
| magic trufflenoun | (informal) The psychedelic sclerotia of magic mushrooms. |
| mercury-vapor lampnoun | (American spelling) Alternative spelling of mercury-vapour lamp. [(British spelling) a gaseous discharge lamp in which the arc discharge takes place in mercury vapour; used for highway illumination and as an industrial source of ultraviolet radiation] |
| supermarionationnoun | A puppetry technique used in the 1960s, involving motorized marionettes suspended and controlled by thin wires. |
| motographynoun | (obsolete) The act of capturing a motion picture; filming. |
| antemasquenoun | Obsolete form of antimasque. [A comic or grotesque dance presented before or between the acts of a masque.] |
| machinemanoun | Alternative form of machinima. [(video games, film, countable, uncountable) The rendering of computer-generated imagery using low-end (real time) 3D engines such as those found in video games, as opposed to the high-end, complex 3D engines used by professionals.] |
| mappemondenoun | A medieval map of the known or imagined world. |
| mimeographynoun | (historical) The creation of duplicate documents using a mimeograph. |
| meteornoun | A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or falling star. |
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