Epidiascope
//ɛpɪˈdʌɪəskəʊp// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A projector that can project images of both opaque and transparent objects onto a screen.
"But it was only the huge epidiascope which threw upon the farther wall the blazing and magnified images of the photographs which Nimrod himself was feeding into it one by one from an envelope."
- 2 an optical projector that gives images of both transparent and opaque objects wordnet
Example
More examples"But it was only the huge epidiascope which threw upon the farther wall the blazing and magnified images of the photographs which Nimrod himself was feeding into it one by one from an envelope."
Etymology
From epi- + dia- + -scope.
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