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cine-

Also ciné‑.

The cinema; film.

English cinematographic, through French from Greek kinēma, movement.

A cineaste or a cinephile is a devotee of the cinema. A cineplex is a term in the US for a cinema with several separate screens. Several terms refer to the technology of moving pictures: cine-projector, cine-camera, cine-film. In medicine cineradiography records a moving x-ray image. Cine can also stand alone as an adjective. Some terms are on occasion written with an accent, such as cinéaste, reflecting the immediate French origin of the form, but this is now much less common than it once was. See also kinesio‑.

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