English Explanatory Dictionary

Ames room

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A distorted room designed to be viewed through a pinhole, using a trick of perspective to create an optical illusion so that people standing in opposite corners appear to be of very different sizes.

Word forms

Ames room Ames rooms

Etymology

Invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr. in 1934.

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