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phenakistiscope (plural phenakistiscopes)

  1. Alternative form of phenakistoscope
    • 2008 January 18, The New York Times, “Movie Guide and Film Series”, in New York Times[1]:
      Here are the intricately colored discs and paper strips of images that needed only devices like a zoetrope or phenakistiscope to become animated spectacles: a horse will jump through a hoop; a sailor will blow a bubble that becomes the moon.