Word Meanings - ENORTHOTROPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope.

Related words: (words related to ENORTHOTROPE)

• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• REVOLVE
  1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house pear the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. I. Watts. 2. To move in a curved
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• REVOLVABLE
  That may be revolved.
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• THAUMATROPE
  An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn. Note: It consists of a card having on its opposite faces figures of two different objects, or halves of the same object,
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• REVOLVENCY
  The act or state of revolving; revolution. Its own revolvency upholds the world. Cowper.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• IMPERFECT
  1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
• RAPIDLY
  In a rapid manner.
• REVOLVING
  Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth. But grief returns with the revolving year. Shelley. Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. Cowper.
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• CONFUSE
  1. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision. A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused.
• CONFUSABILITY
  Capability of being confused.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CONFUSEDNESS
  A state of confusion. Norris.
• IMPERFECTIBLE
  Incapable of being mad perfect.
• REGULAR
  A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church. Bp. Fitzpatrick.
• IMPERFECTIBILITY
  The state or quality of being imperfectible.
• SYNOPTIC; SYNOPTICAL
  Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument. "The synoptic Gospels." Alford. -- Syn*op"tic*al*ly, adv.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• OPTIC; OPTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to vision or sight. The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views. Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina.