English Explanatory Dictionary

kaleidograph

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A device for projecting the colorful patterns produced by a kaleidoscope.
  3. A changing visual display.

Word forms

kaleidograph kaleidographs

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καλός (kalós, “beautiful”) + -graph.

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