phantascope

English

Etymology

From phantasm +‎ -scope.

Noun

phantascope (plural phantascopes)

1. (historial, photography) An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope and illustrating the same principle.

Synonyms

• phantasmascope

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “phantascope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)