stereopticon
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English
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Noun
[edit]stereopticon (plural stereopticons)
- A magic lantern, especially one with two projectors arranged so as to produce dissolving views or combinations of images.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
- 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200:
- Certain unscrupulous individuals grow rich through the manufacture and distribution of suggestive postcards, obscene steriopticon views, and inexcusable books and typewritten pamphlets.