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单词 praxinoscope
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praxinoscopen.

Brit. /ˈpraksɪnəskəʊp/, /prakˈsɪnəskəʊp/, U.S. /ˈpræksənəˌskoʊp/, /prækˈsɪnəˌskoʊp/
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymon: French praxinoscope.
Etymology: Apparently < French praxinoscope (although this is apparently first attested later: attributed to C. E. Reynaud by G. Tissandier in 1879; compare quot. 1882), irregularly < ancient Greek πρᾶξις action (see praxis n.) + French -o- -o- connective + -scope -scope comb. form, with inserted -n- (perhaps after Greek adjectives in -ινος -ine suffix2, although the adjective formed from πρᾶξις is in fact Hellenistic Greek πράξιμος (of money) recoverable).
Now chiefly historical.
A toy resembling a zoetrope, in which a series of figures representing successive positions of a moving object are arranged on the inner surface of a broad, shallow, cylindrical or polygonal drum which is open at the top and has in the middle a corresponding series of mirrors in which the figures are reflected, so that when the drum is rapidly rotated, the persistence of the successive visual images produces the impression of actual motion.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > optical and scientific toys > [noun]
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1878 C. E. Reynaud Brit. Patent 4244/1877 1 An Improved Apparatus for the Production of Optical Illusions called the ‘Praxinoscope’... The object of this Invention is to produce the illusion of motion by means of Drawings representing the successive phases of an action.
1882 Nature 16 Nov. 60/2 M. Gaston Tissandier describes in La Nature an ingenious adaptation of the praxinoscope,..by means of which the images are projected on a screen, and are visible to a large assembly.
1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 98 We have all heard of Mr. Eadweard Muybridge and his studies of galloping horses, etc. Some of us have even been fortunate enough to see the real things as exhibited by his praxinoscope.
1929 Times 19 Mar. p. vi (caption) The ‘Praxinoscope’, one of the earliest inventions for showing moving pictures... The pictures were viewed in the mirror arranged on the inner drum.
1975 Sci. Amer. Dec. 134/2 What you get are outlines and black-and-white images on heavy paper, ready to cut out and make up into a zoetrope or a praxinoscope.
1992 Daily Tel. 26 Mar. 17/1 Extravagantly named optical toys—zoetropes and praxinoscopes and phenakistiscopes—were the Nintendo Game Boys of their day, and no smart drawing-room could be without one.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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