[f. Gr. καλός beautiful + -τροπος turning.] The name given to a kind of geometric thaumatrope.
1846. J. Joyce, Sci. Dial., xxii. 333. The Kalotrope is a modification of the dissolving views.
c. 1865. J. Wylde, in Circ. Sc., I. 77/2. Mr. Rose has invented a very interesting instrument, which he calls the kalotrope.