cinematograph

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an early apparatus that recorded and projected motion pictures

   The cinematograph created apparent movement from a rapid succession of still images.

2. 2
   noun

   historical: a motion-picture show or the art and process of showing films

   Crowds gathered to see the new cinematograph at the music hall.

Borrowed from French cinematographe, coined from Ancient Greek kinema, kinematos ("movement") + graphein ("to write, record"). The Lumiere brothers used Cinematographe as the name of their combined motion-picture camera and projector.

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