English Explanatory Dictionary

tachyscope

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An early form of animated-picture machine in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.

Word forms

tachyscope tachyscopes

Etymology

From tachy- + -scope.

Derived words

electrotachyscope
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