释义 |
zoetrope /zōˈi-trōp/ noun- The ‘wheel of life’, an instrument in which figures on the inside of a rotating cylinder are made visible through slots and provide an illusion of animated motion
- (also zōˈechrome) any of several early processes for colour cinematography, using rapidly repeated images of the selected colours in sequence on a screen, the synthesis arising from persistence of vision in the eye
ORIGIN: Gr zōē life, and tropos a turning zoetropic /-tropˈik/ adjective |