zoetropes
Meaning of zoetropes
plural noun
a 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion.
mid 19th century: formed irregularly from Greek zōē ‘life’ + -tropos ‘turning’.
Information about zoetropes
- It is a name.
- The singular form of zoetropes is: zoetrope.
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Hyphenation of zoetropes
zoetropes
- It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
- zoetropes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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