How to pronounce mutoscope
American English pronunciation
MYOO-tuh-skohp
- IPA
- /ˈmjutəˌskoʊp/
- Syllables
- MYOO · tuh · skohp (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What mutoscope means
An old coin-run viewer of flip-card moving pictures
In a sentence: At the old arcade, she dropped a coin in the mutoscope and turned the crank to watch a clown dance.
Where it comes from: It began as a trade name, from a Latin word meaning to change, plus scope, a word part for looking.
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