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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (gcide)

Biograph \Bi"o*graph\, n. [Gr. bi`os life -graph.]
1. An animated picture machine for screen projection; a
cinematograph. [obsolescent]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. [Cf. {Biography}.] A biographical sketch. [Rare]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]


Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion
-graph.]
1. an older name for a {movie projector}, a machine,
combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for
projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly
(25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an
objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the
illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector;
also, any of several other machines or devices producing
moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the {movie
projector} are {animatograph}, {biograph}, {bioscope},
{electrograph}, {electroscope}, {kinematograph},
{kinetoscope}, {veriscope}, {vitagraph}, {vitascope},
{zoogyroscope}, {zoopraxiscope}, etc.

The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is
the result of the introduction of the flexible film
into photography in place of glass. --Encyc. Brit.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by
the instrument described above.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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