magic lantern

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   an early form of slide projector

   Broaderslide projector

Questions about magic lantern

What does magic lantern mean?

magic lantern means "an early form of slide projector".

Is magic lantern a common word?

magic lantern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.