Ames room

noun

Ames room

noun

Etymology Invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr. in 1934.

1

A distorted room designed to be viewed through a pinhole, using a trick of perspective to create an optical illusion so that people standing in opposite corners appear to be of very different sizes.

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