epidiascope

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UK/ɛpɪˈdʌɪəskəʊp/

noun

A projector that can project images of both opaque and transparent objects onto a screen.

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Meanings

nounepidiascope (plural epidiascopes)

plural epidiascopes

  1. A projector that can project images of both opaque and transparent objects onto a screen.

    But it was only the huge epidiascope which threw upon the farther wall the blazing and magnified images of the photographs which Nimrod himself was feeding into it one by one from an envelope.

    1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar

Origin

From epi- + dia- + -scope.

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APA

epidiascope. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/epidiascope

MLA

“epidiascope.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/epidiascope. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “epidiascope,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/epidiascope.

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