GLOSSARY OF DEFINITIONS OF FUNDAMENTAL EXPEDIENTS

Secret Hiding Place
— Any space used as a compartment for concealment. Usually implies presence of the space is unknown to spectators. May be fixed or movable.
Diverted Attention
— Spectator interest or observation turned aside or lured away to some other objective for purposes of reducing scrutiny or observation of their original subject of attention.
Form to Simulate an Object
— An object, usually skeleton in nature, fashioned to simulate the external outlines of some solid object.
Detachable Portion
— A part of an entire thing, which may be detached and removed from. the whole.
Pulled Thread
— Some type of power applied to a length of thread for the purpose of applying some kind of movement.
Movement Through Gravity or Centrifugal Force
— A change of p0sition accomplished through the pull of gravity or through outward impulsion from a center of rotation.
Revolving Panel
— A rotating section of a surface.
Secret Compartment
— A space unknown to the spectators. May be fixed-built into some accessory, or movable, tipping, rotating, hanging, swinging or loose. Some type of container whose presence is kept secret.
Shell Object
— Something of apparently solid construction which is principally a casing with little internal substance.
Interchangeable Compartments
— Alternative parts of an enclosed space which may be put in place of or substituted for each other.
Conveyance, Concealed by an Accessory
— The act of moving something from one place to another while it is hidden behind, beneath or within something else, secretly.
Access to Nearby Hiding Places
— A means or a way of reaching a secret space which is not a part of or in immediate contact but which rather is close at hand.
Covers Blending With Background
— An enveloping concealment, or one spread over, which shades insensibly or merges with that which is behind it in such a manner that the line of demarcation cannot be distinguished.
Secret Passageway
— A secret avenue of transit, passage, access or egress, to or from a place.
Chemical Reaction
— Response through chemical process.
Optical Illusion
— A deceptive appearance achieved through the science of light.
Concealment of Hollow Shells Within Hollow Interiors of Accessories
— The hiding of something which is apparently solid but which is really principally a casing whose interior contours are approximately like and may be mistaken for the interior contours of the accessory within which the shell is concealed.
Secret Exchange
— An unobserved and undeclared substitution of one thing for another.
Pretense
— A false or deceitful claim, asserted or implied, held out as real or true.
Disguise
— The hiding or obscuring of the true nature, character or identity of something to misrepresent it as something else.
Expansibility, Compressibility and Collapsibility
— An object which is constructed so that it may be confined in much less space than its apparent size indicates. Thus, taken from a small space. it will increase in apparent size. Or it may be reduced in size to be contained in a relatively small space.
Movement Through Elastics, Springs and Other Power
— A particular act or manner of moving imparted through some type of physical power source.
Fast, Unexpected Movement
— Rapid motion in a particular manner. which, because unanticipated by the spectators, is unseen because of the combination of speed and surprise.
Optical Projection
— The throwing of some type of image upon some type of screen through application of the science of light.
Change in Relative Surroundings
— To alter or make different the mutual environment, circumstances or conditions so that this relationship is varied or shifted.
Duplicates
— Two objects which are exact counterparts of each other identical in appearance.
Implication
— That which is expressed indirectly by inference from apparent facts, a conclusion from appearances.
Substitution
— The replacement of one thing by another.
Invisible Connection
— An unseen and imperceptible link, tie or fastening uniting two or more objects.
Concealed Connection
— A hidden or covered link, tie or fastening uniting two or more objects.
Concealed Power
— A hidden or secretly covered source of applied energy or force.
Secret Manipulation
— Skillful or dexterous movement or control of something, by the hands, done in a manner to escape observation.
Magnetic Attraction
— A force acting mutually between two objects of iron, tending to draw them together and resisting their separation.
Controlled Center of Gravity
— The regulating and influencing of that point in an object about which all parts of the object exactly balance each other.
Atmospheric Pressure
— The pressure of the air.
Adhesion
— The sticking together of substances in contact with each other.
Interpretation
— The explanation, construction or sense given by the performer in the light of his individual interests, purposes and objectives.
Simulation
— The act of assuming or feigning a false appearance.
Secret Mark
— Any means of identification which is unknown to, unrevealed to, and hidden from, others.
Secret Codes and Keys
— Systems of words, symbols or other signals, arbitrarily chosen, for clandestine communication. Clues which serve to reveal, discover or solve something to someone else. unknown to others.
Secret Glimpse
— A covert, short, hurried view, unknown to the spectators.
Mathematical Arrangement
— Put in combination or order according to some numerical system.
Mathematical Formula
— Put in a set order or arrangement for solution by numbers.
Forcing
— Imposition of the performer's choice. Usually by psychological arrangement or timing. Frequently by making any other choice impossible by secretly eliminating all alternatives. Most commonly accomplished by substituting like choices for a variety.
Psychological Clue
— A subconscious behavior indication which serves to guide the performer.
Confederacy
— The use of a secret accomplice who usually poses as one of the spectators.
Calculated Delay
— The act of putting off or deferring an action, by design or plan, for a specific purpose or to gain an advantage.
Prearrangement
— The act of setting up or establishing a desired order or arrangement beforehand.
Carbon Impressions and Other Copies
— Facsimile or exact copies through any of the impression methods-carbon, wax, depressions or other.
Gaining Possession Secretly
— Securing an object unknown to the spectators.
Evesdropping, Direct or Through Microphone
— Secretly listening to conversations by any method.
Surreptitious Observation
— Spying. Watching secretly.
Secret Writing
— Any mode of writing which may be done without the spectators becoming aware of it.
Dual identity Construction
— Building or fashioning in such a way that the subject may represent or appear as two distinct things, at different times.
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