phénakistoscope
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The iconic regime is comprised of the following vision machines: the diorama (1820); the phénakistoscope (1830); the zootrope (1835); the panorama and the stereoscope (1800-50); the cinéorama (1900); Cinerama and Cinemascope (1952), Sensorama (1960) and Omnimax (1980-90)."
- "[Obadiah B.] Brown gave his machine—which combined the principles of the phénakistocope (derived from Greek words meaning, roughly, “to show movement of a target or object”) and the magic lantern—the equally improbable name of phasmatrope (a “turning apparition”)."
- "Figure 8 Phénakistoscope, praxinoscope and zoetrope."