kaleidograph
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A late 19th or early 20th century device for duplicating documents that use colored ink, consisting of a tray with a rubbery substance that takes an impression of the document and then transfers it onto blank sheets of paper.
noun
A device for projecting the colorful patterns produced by a kaleidoscope.
Example Sentences
- "The Kaleidograph is claimed to be the only apparatus of the kind adapted for use in all temperatures from 20⁰ to 90⁰."
- "Some of the larger additions to the equipment have been for the school; two pianos, six typewriters, five kaleidographs, one stereograph, one embossed globe, twenty-four new desks, more than five hundred books for the library, numerous tables for study room, etc.;"
- "In the school department the following subjects are taught: English, writing with stylus, kaleidograph and typewriting, spelling, dramatization, arithmetic, geography, history, current events, nature study, and physiology."
- "Electrical experiments were provided by Mr J. P. Capon, who had a powerful battery at work, and the kaleidograph, lent by Mr. G. Nash, was a never-ceasing source of fascination."
- "By means of a device, known as a kaleidograph, the patterns thus formed may be thrown on a screen or a glass."
- "PULFRICH, of Zeiss's, has invented a new kaleidograph which gives perfect images of the pretty and instructive figures as seen in the ordinary kaleidoscope."