zoetrope
/zoh-ee-trohp/US // ˈzoʊ iˌtroʊp //UK // (ˈzəʊɪˌtrəʊp) //
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
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- : a device for giving an illusion of motion, consisting of a slitted drum that, when whirled, shows a succession of images placed opposite the slits within the drum as one moving image.
Examples
After Lucy Fisher became head of production for Francis Coppola's Zoetrope Studios, he could barely contain his envy.
Avenues of poplars on both sides of the road chased each other like the figures in a zoetrope.
If they happened to pass on a bicycle it was the merest zoetrope-flicker and they were gone.
With the discovery of instantaneous photography, a new application of the principle of the zoetrope was found.
My zoetrope thus worked off itself, and piled up Karma for all the village whether anyone happened to be looking at it or not.
The zoetrope, or Wheel of Life, which appeared first in 1860, is a modification of the same idea.
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