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Victorian vs Chronophotography - What's the difference?

victorian | chronophotography |

As nouns the difference between victorian and chronophotography

is that victorian is a person living, or born in that period, or exhibiting characteristics of the victorian period while chronophotography is an antique photographic technique from the victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print.

As an adjective victorian

is of or relating to the reign of queen victoria or the period from 1837 to 1901.

victorian

English

Adjective

(en adjective) (Victorian era)
  • Of or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria or the period from 1837 to 1901.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • # Of or displaying the (supposed) standards or ideals of morality of that period.
  • # Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period.
  • # Based on the culture of that period.
  • Of or relating to the state of Victoria in Australia.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person living, or born in that period, or exhibiting characteristics of the Victorian period.
  • * 2008 May 29 – June 4, Aimee Levitt, "Mind Your Manners", , page 20,
    • It was not until the late 1800s when older members of New York society... devised a daunting system of social rules — not to mention silverware — meant to repel anyone of humble origins... . It was the Victorians who gave us such useful implements as the strawberry knife.
  • A person from the state of Victoria in Australia.
  • A person from Victoria, British Columbia.

    • chronophotography

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia chronophotography)
  • An antique photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 21, author=Melena Ryzik, title=Telescope Takes a Long View, to London, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=And since he studies 19th-century chronophotography —? sometimes called precinema or pre-cinematography —? for his day job as a professor of animation at London Metropolitan University, he knew where (and when) to begin looking for model machinery. }}