Diorama

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  • noun. A three-dimensional miniature or life-size scene in which figures, stuffed wildlife, or other objects are arranged in a naturalistic setting against a painted background.
  • noun. A scene reproduced on cloth transparencies with various lights shining through the cloths to produce changes in effect, intended for viewing at a distance through an aperture.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A spectacular painting, or a connected series of paintings, intended for exhibition to spectators in a darkened room, in a manner to produce by optical illusions an appearance of reality.
  • noun. A building in which dioramic paintings are exhibited.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.
  • noun. A building used for such an exhibition.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A three-dimensional display of a scenery, often having a painted background in front of which models are arranged, e.g. in a museum where stuffed animals are presented against a painted landscape.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
    • Word Usage
    "The sheet explains the basic facts of what the diorama is about."
    Hypernym
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    icon  ikon  image  picture  
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    battlespace  cageful  cartography  holograph  hypertext  
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    airscape  cityscape  cloudscape  cosmorama  cyclorama  
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