magic lantern
Use Magic lantern in a sentencemagic lantern
noun
a device having an enclosed lamp and a lenslike opening, formerly used for projecting and magnifying images mounted on slides or films.
Origin:
1690–1700
1690–1700
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| magic lantern | |
| —n | |
| Sometimes shortened to: lantern an early type of slide projector | |
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Magic lantern
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Example sentences
W will display the scenes of the lodge with its big magic lantern.
The machine used to project the slides was frequently called a magic lantern.
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