n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, motion + -graph. ] 1. an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.

The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass. Encyc. Brit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who takes motion pictures with a movie camera, especially one expert in the art. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. one who exhibits motion pictures; an operator of a motion picture projector; a projectionist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

-- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic a. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic*al*ly adv. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A combining form from Gr. nh^ma, nh`matos, a thread. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Nemato- + -blast. ] (Biol.) A spermatocyte or spermoblast. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Nematocalyces E. Nematocalyxes [ NL. See Nemato-, and Calyx. ] (Zool.) One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. nh^ma, nh`matos, a thread + ke`ras horn. ] (Zool.) A suborder of dipterous insects, having long antennae, as the mosquito, gnat, and crane fly; -- called also Nemocera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the property of killing nematodes; lethal to nematodes. [ Also spelled nematicidal. ] [ PJC ]

n. A substance that kills nematodes, especially one used in medicine or to kill plant pathogens. [ Also spelled nematicide. ] [ PJC ]

n. [ Nemato- + cyst. ] (Zool.) A lasso cell, or thread cell. See Lasso cell, under Lasso. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. pl. (Zool.) A phylum of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. They are mostly parasites, in plants and animals, but some are free-living in soil or water. Also called Nematoidea. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. (Zool.) Any worm of the phylum Nematoda; a roundworm; -- they are unsegmented worms having a cylindrical elongated body. They may live freely in soil or water, or as parasites in plants or animals. [ PJC ]

a. (Zool.) Same as Nematoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Nemato- + root of Gr. &unr_; to be born. ] (Zool.) One of the dimorphic forms of the species of Dicyemata, which produced vermiform embryos; -- opposed to rhombogene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Nematognathi. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See nemato-, and Gnathic. ] (Zool.) An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Nemato- + -oid. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Nematoda. -- n. One of the Nematoda. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. nh^ma, nh`matos, thread + -oid. ] (Zool.) A phylum of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. Called also Nematodea, and more commonly Nematoda. Formerly, it was classed as a taxonomic order. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ The trichina, stomach worm, and pinworm of man belong to this group. See also Vinegar eel, under Vinegar, and Gapeworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Zool.) Nematoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. nh^ma, nh`matos, a thread + fe`rein to bear. ] (Zool.) Same as Coelenterata. [ 1913 Webster ]