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Exhibition vs Cosmorama - What's the difference?

exhibition | cosmorama |

As nouns the difference between exhibition and cosmorama

is that exhibition is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited while cosmorama is (dated) an exhibition of perspective images using various optical effects.

exhibition

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
  • A large scale public showing of objects or products.
  • There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
    a boat exhibition
  • (UK) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 352:
  • He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.

    Derived terms

    * exhibitionism * make an exhibition of oneself

    cosmorama

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia cosmorama) (en noun)
  • (dated) An exhibition of perspective images using various optical effects
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