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Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French cinématographe, from Greek kin?mat-, kin?ma movement (from kinein to move) + French -o- + -graphe -graph — more at -kinesis Date: 1896 chiefly British a motion-picture camera, projector, theater, or show

Oxford Reference Dictionary

(also kinematograph) n. an apparatus for showing motion-picture films. Etymology: F cinématographe f. Gk kinema -atos movement f. kineo move

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cinematograph Cin`e*mat"o*graph, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion + -graph.] 1. A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other common names for the cinematograph are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zo["o]gyroscope, zo["o]praxiscope, etc.