Vocabulary : Kinetogenesis to Kingcup
Kinetogenesis : An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope.Kinetograph : A camera for making chronophotographs. ;; A machine for the projection of chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture. ;; A combined animated-picture machine and phonograph in which sounds appropriate to the scene are automatically uttered by the latter instrument.
Kinetophone : A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.
Kinetoscope : A machine, for the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the impression of continuous motion.
King : A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer. ;; A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince. ;; One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts. ;; A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king of diamonds. ;; The chief piece in the game of chess. ;; A crowned man in the game of draughts. ;; The title of two historical books in the Old Testament. ;; To supply with a king; to make a king of; to raise to royalty.
