radiographn.1
/ˈreɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf/, /ˈreɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡraf/, U.S. /ˈreɪdiəˌɡræf/, /ˈreɪdioʊˌɡræf/ 1. An instrument for measuring and recording the duration and intensity of sunshine. Cf. heliograph n. 3. Now disused.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > solar radiation > [noun] > instrument measuring
actinograph1840
radiograph1880
pyranometer1916
solarimeter1926
actinometer1955
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > measurement of heat > instrument > for measuring radiant heat > specific
actinometer1833
pyrheliometer1841
radiograph1880
bolometer1881
1880 D. Winstanley in Chem. News 30 Apr. 205/1 I will now ask your attention to the description of another and much more perfect apparatus, one which continuously records the intensity of thermal radiation in which it is exposed. This instrument I have called the ‘Radiograph’.
1924 Science 31 Oct. 409/1 An ingenious self-recording radiograph and a portable photometer which make use of the selenium cell as the light sensitive element.
2. An image of an object produced on a sensitive plate, film, or screen by means of X-rays or other ionizing radiation, esp. by exploiting the property of such rays of passing through many substances that are opaque to visible light. Cf. X-radiograph n.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > [noun] > by means of a computer > photographs or images obtained by X-ray, etc.
thermotype1877
phosphorograph1880
shadow-picture1889
inductoscript1892
radiogram1896
radiograph1896
roentgenogram1896
shadowgraph1896
shadow-photograph1896
skiagram1896
skiagraph1896
X-radiograph1899
X-ray1900
autoradiograph1903
vaporograph1903
vapourgraph1903
radiophotograph1904
roentgenograph1905
microradiogram1913
radiophoto1915
powder photograph1917
interferogram1921
radioautograph1941
microradiograph1944
topograph1944
heat map1947
cinefluorograph1949
scan1953
thermogram1957
thermograph1964
cineradiograph1965
stereoscan1968
Kirlian1970
autorad1985
1896 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 7/2 A ‘radiograph’, or shadow picture, of the hand of Mr. Alfred Lyttelton.
1896 Daily Tel. 16 Mar. 7/2 A radiograph of the front portion of the foot gave no trace of the needle.
1923 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics IV. 618/1 Tool-marks and fine mould-marks often show up in a radiograph.
1948 Sci. News 7 104 A new type X-ray tube permits radiographs to be made with exposures of 1/500,000th second.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) XI. 304 a/1 Radiographs made with γ-rays have high resolving power because of the absence of scattering.
1991 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 583/2 A chest radiograph showed widespread patchy consolidation suggesting bronchopneumonia.
2000 Dendrochronology (English Heritage) 23/2 The use of a body scanner to produce sectional radiographs..is totally non-destructive but is expensive.
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radiographn.2
/ˈreɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf/, /ˈreɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡraf/, U.S. /ˈreɪdiəˌɡræf/, /ˈreɪdioʊˌɡræf/ rare. disused.
= radio-telegraph n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > radio-telegraphs
wireless telegraph1895
Marconigraph1902
radio-telegraph1903
radiograph1904
spark telegraph1934
rig1935
radioteletype1939
RT1941
1904 Prelim. Conf. Wireless Telegr. Berlin 1903 5 It is to him [sc. Popoff] that we owe the first radiograph apparatus.
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radiographv.
/ˈreɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf/, /ˈreɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡraf/, U.S. /ˈreɪdiəˌɡræf/, /ˈreɪdioʊˌɡræf/ transitive. To make a radiograph of; to study by radiography.In quot. 1924 figurative.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > represent graphically [verb (transitive)] > depict by or produce X-ray, etc.
radiograph1896
shadowgraph1896
skiagraph1896
roentgenograph1905
autoradiograph1947
1896 Daily News 29 Feb. 5/4 Mr. Stanley Kent photographed, shadowgraphed, electrographed, or radiographed—for the proper verb is still undetermined—a fractured finger bone at St. Thomas's Hospital.
1897 Treatment 1 43/2 It is almost routine practice..to radiograph fractures.
1924 Observer 6 Apr. 12/3 He [sc. Byron] has been radiographed to the bone.
1940 J. A. Ross Handbk. Radiogr. xii. 112 Various methods of examination have been devised in an attempt to radiograph movement.
1951 L. P. Dudley Stereoptics vi. 106 The tube-film distance adopted in radiographing the subject must be the same as that adopted in radiographing the wire model.
1977 Lancet 19 Nov. 1059/2 Each section was photographed in colour, radiographed, drawn in black-and-white and compared with the scanner image at the corresponding level.
2003 Copeia 734/1 Some females classified as nonreproductive may, in fact, have laid eggs either before or after the individual was radiographed.
Derivatives
ˈradiographing n.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > [noun] > by means of a computer > study or process of X-ray, etc. > the action of
radiographing1908
1908 Sci. Abstr. A. 11 105 1M of No. 5 rays will suffice for the radiographing of a hand.
2002 Forensic Sci. Internat. 130 175/2 Specimens retrieved at the scene..were taken by the odontologists for preliminary inspection and radiographing.
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