Kaleidoscope

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kaleidoscope \Ka*lei"do*scope\, n. [Gr. ? beautiful + e'i^dos
     form + -scope.]
     An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains
     loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting
     surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its
     contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and


     symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of
     design.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the
           kaleidoscope.                            --G. W. Cable.
     Kaleidoscopic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  kaleidoscope
       n : an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns
           as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Kaleidoscope
       
           An {object-oriented} language which mixes
          {imperative} and {constraint}-oriented features.  Kaleidoscope
          was written by Freeman-Benson of the {University of
          Washington}, {Universite de Nantes}, 1989; {University of
          Victoria}, 1992.  It is similar to {Siri} and vaguely related
          to {Prose}.
       
          Versions: Kaleidoscope '90 and Kaleidoscope '91.
       
          ["Kaleidoscope: Mixing Objects, Constraints and Imperative
          Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson, SIGPLAN Notices
          25(10):77-88 (OOPSLA/ECOOP '90) (Oct 1990)].
       
          ["Constraint Imperative Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson,
          Ph.D. Thesis, TR 91-07-02, U Wash (1991)].
       
          ["Constraint Imperative Programming", Freeman-Benson et al,
          IEEE Conf on Comp Lang, Apr 1992].
       
          (1994-11-09)