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单词 optography
释义

optographyn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: opto- comb. form, -graphy comb. form.
Etymology: < opto- comb. form + -graphy comb. form, after German Optographie (W. Kühne 1877, in Centralblatt f. die Med. Wissensch. Jan. 3). Compare slightly later optogram n. N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (ǫptǫ·grăfi) /ɒpˈtɒɡrəfɪ/.
Obsolete. rare.
The fixation of a visual image on the retina after death by chemical means.
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1877 Harper's Mag. Aug. 55/1 (1853) Kühne has made some new and remarkable experiments in optography... He has succeeded in fixing upon the retina the image of objects seen..before death.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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