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photoscopic, a.|-ˈskɒpɪk|
[f. as prec. + -ic.]
a. Pertaining to the examination of light.
b. Belonging to a photoscope.
1872tr. Schellen's Spectr. Anal. xli. 230, I..recommend to the scientific investigator a camera obscura specially adapted to these photoscopic observations.
c. Computing. Applied to a photographic method of storing digital information.
1955Sci. Amer. June 100/3 Gilbert W. King..has undertaken to exploit the great density of information storage that is possible through the use of high-resolution photographic emulsions. With his ‘photoscopic’ technique information can be stored at densities more than a hundred times as great as those possible in magnetic media. 1970O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing x. 151 One example of photographic film memories is the photoscopic memory, which has been used for dictionaries in mechanical translation from one natural language to another. The medium is a continuously rotating disk of transparent plastic carrying a photographic layer upon which a pattern corresponding to zeroes and ones has been recorded. |