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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope Meaning & Definition
Kaleidoscope Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Kaleidoscope?

[n] an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors

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See Also | plaything | toy

Kaleidoscope In Webster's Dictionary

\Ka*lei"do*scope\, n. [Gr. ? beautiful + ? form + -scope.] An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design. Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the kaleidoscope. --G. W. Cable.

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