Thesaurus: moving picture

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1. n. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
2. A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision, the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects move in some manner, as that of some original scene. The usual form of moving pictures is that produced by the cinematograph.
3. A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a specialmachine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some orall of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changedpositions, producing, by persistence of vision, the optical effect ofa continuous picture in which the objects move in some manner, asthat of some original scene. The usual form of moving pictures isthat produced by the cinematograph.