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Definition: STEREOPTICON |
STEREOPTICONNoun1. An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views. |
Date "STEREOPTICON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Etymology: Stereopticon \Ste`re*op"ti*con\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Stereo-, and Optic.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: STEREOPTICON |
| English words defined with "STEREOPTICON": Chromatrope. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STEREOPTICON": audiovisual equipment operator ♦ BIOGRAPH ♦ electrician, master ♦ MOTION-PICTURE PROJECTIONIST ♦ process projectionist ♦ SIGHT-EFFECTS SPECIALIST ♦ theater projectionist. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | President Calvin Coolidge. Front parlor, on left three pix father, on table eyeglasses and stereopticon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The gray dusty truck, in the yard before the door, stood out magically in this light, in the overdrawn perspective of a stereopticon. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stereopticon | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STEREOPTICON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Farsi | چراغ عکس , سینمای غیرمتحرک , شهرفرنگ . (various references) | ||||
Greek | στερεοσκοπικόσ προβολεύσ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ereopticonstay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STEREOPTICON": stereopticons. (additional references) | |
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"STEREOPTICON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sereopticon, stereoptican. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "STEREOPTICON" (pronounced 'Ste`re*op"ti*con'): Archdeacon, Bacon, Balcon, Barcon, Basilicon, Buscon, Catholicon, Flacon, Gascon, Gentile-falcon, gyrfalcon, helicon, lexicon, Monasticon, Onomasticon, Panopticon, Panpharmacon, Pantechnicon, Parelcon, Pharmacon, Rincon, Rubicon, Salpicon, Sciopticon, silicon, Subdeacon, Synonymicon, Tyrotoxicon, Zircon. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: protections. | |
-2 letters: entoprocts, intercepts, introspect, neotropics, protection, receptions, stenotopic. | |
-3 letters: contester, cooperies, copestone, copresent, cornetist, cortisone, entoproct, entrepots, entropies, erections, inceptors, inspector, intercept, interpose, intersect, neoterics, optionees, pecorinos, pinsetter, porticoes, potencies, potteries, prentices, prescient, reception, reinspect, resection, secretion, stonecrop, tenorites, trecentos. | |
-4 letters: centrist, citterns, cointers, conspire, contorts, contrite, coonties, corniest, coronets, coteries, cottiers, creosote. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: interoceptors, retrospection, stereopticons. | |
+2 letters: expectorations, retrospections. | |
+3 letters: optoelectronics, overprotections, photoreceptions. | |
+4 letters: counterpetitions, nephrotoxicities, overexpectations, postresurrection. | |
+5 letters: contemporaneities, counterhypothesis, electrodepositing, electrodeposition, postresurrections. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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