Kaleidoscope
[kə'laɪdəskəʊp] or [kə'laɪdəskop]
Definition
(noun.) an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors.
(noun.) a complex pattern of constantly changing colors and shapes.
Typed by Ada--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design.
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Definition
n. an optical toy in which we see an endless variety of beautiful colours and forms.—adj. Kaleidoscop′ic.
Checker: Polly
Unserious Contents or Definition
Kaleidoscopes working before you in a dream, portend swift changes with little of favorable promise in them.
Typist: Millie
Examples
- In such a Kaleidoscope, the circular figure will be formed by three reflections from each glass. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Every person, who could buy or make one, had a Kaleidoscope. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The Kaleidoscope invented by Sir David Brewster. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But this instrument was so different in its construction, and in the effects it produced, from the Kaleidoscope, that Sir David Brewster's claim to be the inventor may be freely admitted. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He afterwards introduced other improvements in the Kaleidoscope, for extending its range of objects, for varying the angles of inclination, and for projecting the figures on a screen. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- For three hours we strolled about together, watching the ever-changing kaleidoscope of life as it ebbs and flows through Fleet Street and the Strand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Kaleidoscope was invented by Sir David Brewster in 1814, and British patent No. 4,136 granted him July 10, 1817, for the same. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- And of what account was anybody's past, in the huge kaleidoscope where all the social atoms spun around on the same plane? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- No invention, on being first brought out, created so general a sensation as the Kaleidoscope. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This he thought might form a common platform for every variety of faith in India, that kaleidoscope of religions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the better kind of Kaleidoscopes, the cell containing the objects may be turned round, by which means the pieces of glass shift their positions, and the figures instantly change. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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