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magic lantern

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magic lantern: see stereopticon stereopticon , optical projection instrument making multiple use of the magic lantern. The magic lantern uses lenses to throw on a screen a magnified image from a transparent slide or from an opaque object such as a photograph or the page of a book.
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magic lantern
an early type of slide projector


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However, this thought, like all others, came and went in a flash, for the whole morning was like a series of magic lantern pictures, crossing and recrossing her field of vision.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
It is a magic lantern, of which the eye of man every year changes the aspects.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
During many hours of the short winter days, however, when it was dusk there early in the afternoon, changing distortions of herself in her wheeled chair, of Mr Flintwinch with his wry neck, of Mistress Affery coming and going, would be thrown upon the house wall that was over the gateway, and would hover there like shadows from a great magic lantern.
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