myrioscope

English

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Etymology

myrio- +‎ -scope

Noun

myrioscope (plural myrioscopes)

A form of kaleidoscope, especially one consisting of mirrors arranged so as by multiplied reflection from a small piece of carpet to show how it looks covering a whole floor.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “myrioscope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)