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A chromosphere. [R.]

An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.

A writer of chronograms.

See Kinematic.

See Kinematics.

er machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other common names for the cinematograph are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoögyroscope, zoöpraxiscope, etc.

One who exhibits moving pictures or who takes chronophotographs by the cinematograph. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic (#), a. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

The act of crying out. Sir T. Browne.

A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.

Like or pertaining to the Clamatores.

One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.

A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.

Climatic. Dunglison.

Presiding over, or regulating, climates.

One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.

Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.

Climatic.

To acclimate or become acclimated.