different between kaleidoscope vs debuscope

English

Alternative forms

• caleidoscope

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (kalós, “beautiful”) + ????? (eîdos, “shape”) (compare -oid) +? -scope. Coined 1817, by David Brewster, its inventor.

Figurative sense of “constantly changing pattern” attested 1819 by Lord Byron, who had received a kaleidoscope from his publisher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??la?d??sko?p/

Noun

kaleidoscope (plural kaleidoscopes)

1. A tube of mirrors containing loose coloured beads etc. that is rotated to produce a succession of symmetrical designs.
2. (figuratively) A constantly changing set of colours, or other things.

Derived terms

• kaleidoscopelike
• kaleidoscopic
• teleidoscope

Translations

Further reading

• kaleidoscope on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Verb

kaleidoscope (third-person singular simple present kaleidoscopes, present participle kaleidoscoping, simple past and past participle kaleidoscoped)

1. (intransitive) To move in shifting patterns.

References

• “kaleidoscope”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French debuscope, named after Debus, a French optician.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?bj?sk??p/

Noun

debuscope (plural debuscopes)

1. A form of kaleidoscope.