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Webster 1913 Edition
Zoetrope
Zo′e-trope
,Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] life + [GREEK] turning, from [GREEK] to turn.]
An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.