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ka⋅lei⋅do⋅scope

  [kuh-lahy-duh-skohp]
–noun
1. an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
2. a continually changing pattern of shapes and colors.
3. a continually shifting pattern, scene, or the like: The 1920s were a kaleidoscope of fads and fashions.
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Origin:
1817; < Gk kal(ós) beautiful + eîdo(s) shape + -scope
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ka·lei·do·scope   (kə-lī'də-skōp')   
n.  

  1. A tube-shaped optical instrument that is rotated to produce a succession of symmetrical designs by means of mirrors reflecting the constantly changing patterns made by bits of colored glass at one end of the tube.

  2. A constantly changing set of colors.

  3. A series of changing phases or events: a kaleidoscope of illusions.


[Greek kalos, beautiful + eidos, form; see weid- in Indo-European roots + -scope.]
ka·lei'do·scop'ic (-skŏp'ĭk), ka·lei'do·scop'i·cal adj., ka·lei'do·scop'i·cal·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

kaleidoscope 
1817, lit. "observer of beautiful forms," coined by its inventor, Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), from Gk. kalos "beautiful" + eidos "shape" (see -oid) + -scope, on model of telescope, etc. Figurative meaning "constantly changing pattern" is first attested 1819 in Lord Byron, whose publisher had sent him one.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Kaleidoscope language
An object-oriented language which mixes imperative programming and constraint-oriented features. Kaleidoscope was written by Freeman-Benson of the University of Washington, Universite de Nantes, 1989; University of Victoria, 1992. It is similar to Siri and vaguely related to Prose.
Versions: Kaleidoscope '90 and Kaleidoscope '91.
["Kaleidoscope: Mixing Objects, Constraints and Imperative Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson, SIGPLAN Notices 25(10):77-88 (OOPSLA/ECOOP '90) (Oct 1990)].
["Constraint Imperative Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson, Ph.D. Thesis, TR 91-07-02, U Wash (1991)].
["Constraint Imperative Programming", Freeman-Benson et al, IEEE Conf on Comp Lang, Apr 1992].
(1994-11-09)

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