zoetrope
nounUK /ˈzəʊ.ɪ.trəʊp/
US /ˈzoʊ.ɪ.troʊp/
A zoetrope is a spinning toy that makes pictures look like they are moving.
The children watched the horses gallop inside the old zoetrope.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. An early optical device that produced the illusion of motion from a series of still images.
The museum displayed a nineteenth-century zoetrope alongside other early cinema machines.
3. A cylinder with slits and pictures used to demonstrate persistence of vision.
In science class, we built a zoetrope to learn how our eyes blend images.
4. Anything that seems to produce lively or shifting movement from static parts.
The city at night was a zoetrope of flashing lights and passing cars.