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An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.
Origin: Gr. Life + turning, from to turn.
(01 Mar 1998)
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