Cinerama [sin-uh-ram-uh, -rah-muh] Movies, Trademark. a wide-screen process using three adjacent, synchronized cameras for photographing and three corresponding projectors for showing the film. Liberaldictionary.com
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 British Dictionary definitions for cinerama Cinerama noun trademark wide-screen presentation of films using either three separate 35mm projectors or one 70mm projector to produce an image on a large deeply curved screen Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for cinerama Cinerama n.
proprietary name, 1951, from cinema + -rama. Purists point out that the proper formation would be *Cinorama.
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