bioscope

/ˈbaɪəˌskoʊp/
noun
  1. A movie theater or cinema, especially in historical contexts.
    • Grandpa recalled spending his Saturdays at the local bioscope.
    • We went to the old bioscope to watch a silent film.
    • The town's first bioscope opened in 1910 and showed newsreels.
  2. A motion-picture projector or a device for viewing moving pictures.
    • The museum displayed a vintage bioscope from the 1920s.
    • The inventor demonstrated his bioscope at the fair.
    • Early bioscopes used hand-cranked mechanisms to show short films.
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