bioscope

bioscope
    n 1: a South African movie theater
    2: a kind of early movie projector
    

Bioscope \Bi"o*scope\, n. [Gr. bi`os life + -scope.]
   1. A view of life; that which gives such a view.
      [1913 Webster]

            Bagman's Bioscope: Various Views of Men and Manners.
            [Book Title.]                         --W. Bayley
                                                  (1824).
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. An animated picture machine for screen projection; a
      cinematograph (which see); an archaic term replaced by
      {movie projector}. [archaic]
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   3. a South African movie theater.
      [WordNet 1.5]
    

Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion +
   -graph.]
   1. an older name for a {movie projector}, a machine,
      combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for
      projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly
      (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an
      objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the
      illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector;
      also, any of several other machines or devices producing
      moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the {movie
      projector} are {animatograph}, {biograph}, {bioscope},
      {electrograph}, {electroscope}, {kinematograph},
      {kinetoscope}, {veriscope}, {vitagraph}, {vitascope},
      {zoogyroscope}, {zoopraxiscope}, etc.

            The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is
            the result of the introduction of the flexible film
            into photography in place of glass.   --Encyc. Brit.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by
      the instrument described above.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]