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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