Definition of "cinematograph" [cin•e•mat•o•graph]

• Chiefly British A movie camera or projector. (noun)
• Chiefly British A movie theater. (noun)

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• "Jules, who had found a sheep-pond in the dark a little lower down, gave what you might call a cinematograph reproduction o 'sporadic musketry."
• "These pictures, which they recognised as an immeasurable development of what is called the cinematograph process on Earth, extended through the whole gamut of the satellite's life."
• "We hardly do anything else than set going a kind of cinematograph inside us…."