(n.) A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon.
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Periscope
Definition:
(n.) A general or comprehensive view.
(n.) an optical instrument of tubular shape containing an arrangement of lenses and mirrors (or prisms), allowing a person to observe a field of view otherwise obstructed, as beyond an obstructing object or (as in submarines) above the surface of the water.
Example Sentences:
(1) The video streaming application has been the star of Nuit debout: one man, Rémy Buisine , started non-stop filming of the scene with his smartphone and live broadcasting on Periscope .
(2) Ten games from the NFL’s regular season will be broadcast on Twitter, as well as in-game highlights and live pre-game interviews on its streaming platform, Periscope.
(3) APPS Periscope (Free) Twitter’s new live-streaming video app has a ton of hype, and it’s tempting to write it off as a novelty when you see endless broadcasts of cats, kids and parties you’re not invited to.
(4) Periscope seems tailor-made for the generation of online video stars that have emerged on YouTube, who’ll be able to use it for impromptu live broadcasts and Q&As with fans, for example.
(5) Secondary effects of wearing periscopes and prisms indicated a certain lack of specificity in the sensing of gain and bias errors: vertical shifts of V-A and A-V curves (resembling those seen with base-out prisms) often occurred with the laterally displacing periscopes, and gain changes (generally resembling those seen with laterally displacing periscopes) often occurred with the base-out prisms.
(6) July 18, 2016 In a Periscope stream after the segment, Ryan said that she was “shaken” by the conversation, which she called “just in-my-face racism”.
(7) Roberts, who is now senior research fellow for sea power and maritime studies at the Royal United Services Institute, said the appearance of a periscope off the western coast of Scotland, which triggered a Nato submarine hunt last month, was a sign of the latest such Russian foray.
(8) Periscope’s launch comes shortly after Twitter controversially blocked Meerkat from accessing its social graph – the means by which the app was helping people find others to watch based on who they were following on Twitter.
(9) Paul’s campaign team had agreed to an interview, which would be broadcast live on the smartphone app Periscope, that would last between six and eight minutes.
(10) As a periscope from the diencephalon, the vomeronasal system may monitor exogenous hormones, "pheromones".
(11) The eye being examined can see the optotypes in the focus of a lens or on the wall behind the examiner by means of a periscope system.
(12) Twitter’s pitch for its new app: “Periscope lets you broadcast live video to the world.
(13) Periscope mitigates this by saving and archiving your recording (if you choose).
(14) We have exciting momentum on live video on Periscope and on Twitter.” Adam Bain, Twitter’s chief operating officer, said that video now accounts for the majority of Twitter’s advertising revenue.
(15) Moore revealed rough details of the project, which he has been making “in secret” since 2009 , in his first Periscope broadcast.
(16) Addressing fans via her Periscope account , Montaño said: You can’t ever get back those moments, you can’t ever replace those feelings that I would have been able to experience at the time.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On Monday, using live streaming app Periscope, the Guardian’s Paul Lewis broadcast from Baltimore where he observed widespread rioting.
(18) PSG suspend Serge Aurier for comments on Laurent Blanc and team-mates Read more Aurier had conducted a question and answer session on Periscope – effectively being interviewed by his friend Mamadou Doucouré, a former reserve player at Lens and Atlético Madrid, late on Saturday night – in which he appeared to describe Blanc as a “faggot”.
(19) Do the same on Periscope and you’re delivered the following stats on your performance: retention viewers time watched duration It’s hard to explain how strangely satisfying this makes it.
(20) He reached a peak of 130,000 people simultaneously connected to his feed on Twitter or on the Periscope app, more than were watching mainstream news TV channels at the same time.