[f. Gr. καλός beautiful + -τροπος turning.] The name given to a kind of geometric thaumatrope.

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1846.  J. Joyce, Sci. Dial., xxii. 333. The Kalotrope is a modification of the dissolving views.

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c. 1865.  J. Wylde, in Circ. Sc., I. 77/2. Mr. Rose … has invented a very interesting instrument, which he calls the kalotrope.

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