cinematograph noun & verb. [sɪnɪ'matǝgrɑ:f] Also (now rare) kinematograph [k-]. L19.
[French cinématographe, from Greek kinēma, kinēmat- movement: see -GRAPH. Initial k- after Greek.]
A. noun. An apparatus for producing an image in which persons and things appear to move, by rapidly projecting on to a screen a succession of photographs on a long film, often also with the reproduction of sound recorded on it; a film projector. L19.
b. verb trans. Make a cinematographic record of. L19.

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