Pictorial landscape encircling a viewer

• Curved wall used as a stage background
• 360-degree artwork
• A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A display consisting of a continuous series of pictures placed on the walls of a circular room so as to appear in natural perspective by a person standing in the middle. 2 A large curtain or wall, often concave, hung upstage, in a theatre.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cyclorama is a panoramic image on the inside of a cylindrical platform, designed to give viewers standing in the middle of the cylinder a 360° view, and also a building designed to show a panoramic image. The intended effect is to make viewers, surrounded ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"picture of a landscape on the interior surface of a cylindrical space," 1840, from cyclo- + -rama "spectacle."

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene [syn: panorama , diorama ]