shadowgraphn.
/ˈʃadəʊɡrɑːf/, /ˈʃadəʊɡraf/, U.S. /ˈʃædoʊˌɡræf/ 1.
a. A picture formed by a shadow (usually, of the operator's hand or hands) thrown upon a screen or other lighted surface; an exhibition of a series of such pictures as a form of entertainment. Also figurative, and = shadowgraphist n.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > [noun] > on a surface > types of
picture card1707
sand-table1812
inset1881
shadowgraph1886
shadow-picture1889
sand-tray1893
cutout1905
standee1930
punch-out1934
pictograph1937
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > image from shadow on screen
shadowgraph1886
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > image from shadow on screen > one who produces
shadowgraph1886
shadowgraphist1888
shadowist1902
1886 St. Stephen's Rev. 27 Mar. 5/2 At the New Club..on Saturday next..Mason and Titus, the American shadowgraphs, who nightly provoke so much laughter at the Oxford, will appear at 11.30 p.m.
1888 Glasgow Evening Times 10 Sept. 4/3 Prof. Wynne brings his shadow-graph to the Gaiety and Star this week.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 14 Dec. 4/3 An account of Trewey's famous shadowgraphs.
1928 A. S. Eddington Nature Physical World p. xvi In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life.
1965 J. Von Sternberg Fun in Chinese Laundry i. 2 To disembody human beings into shadowgraphs of my concepts of them is no labor of love.
b. An image formed by light which has passed through a fluid and been refracted differently by regions of different density (used esp. in the study of fluid flow).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments to refract, etc., light > [noun] > image formed by refracted light
shadowgraph1926
1926 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 111 336 Shadowgraphs of the jets emerging into the atmosphere from nozzles of different forms and at different initial pressures were obtained by the method described above.
1945 Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 35 505/2 If one places a viewing screen between the jet..and the second mirror, the image of the jet as seen on the screen will show what is commonly referred to as a shadowgraph.
1955 F. J. Weyl in High Speed Aerodynamics & Jet Propulsion IX. 21 By far the most extensive use of shadowgraph techniques..concerns the recording of shock waves and slip discontinuities.
1974 W. Merzkirch Flow Visualization iii. 85 Shadowgraphs made with short-duration light pulses display a scale of details much finer than that which the hot-wire technique can resolve.
1978 Nature 5 Jan. 47/1 (caption) Shadowgraph photograph showing the tilted layers and interfaces produced by inserting a block of ice into salt-stratified water at room temperature.
2. A picture or photograph taken by means of X-rays, a radiograph.
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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
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by process
tithonograph1842
platinotype1844
daguerreotype1849
crystallotype1852
catalysotype1853
black print1855
sun print1855
blueprint1857
ferrotype1857
tin-type1864
pyro-photograph1869
opalotype1873
gelatine picture1875
hellenotype1875
panotype1875
silver print1878
autophotograph1880
platinum print1881
bromide print1885
solar1889
solar print1889
shadowgraph1896
skiagraph1896
rotograph1899
autochrome1902
rayogram1932
reduction print1933
photogram1934
blow-up1945
Polaroid1953
opaque1959
bromide1967
1896 Dublin Rev. Apr. 422 A shadowgraph is produced on the plate, revealing the skeleton stripped of flesh and muscle.
1975 Nature 25 Sept. 276/2 The X-ray shadowgraph image is converted into a charge image on a dielectric by the ionisation of a gas or liquid in a chamber.
1978 Sci. Amer. Nov. 62/1 The simplest and most successful way to produce an image with X rays is with contact X-ray microscopy. This technique, which achieves a resolution substantially better than that of the light microscope, creates a shadowgraph of the specimen.
Derivatives
ˈshadowgraph v. (intransitive) to produce shadowgraphs; transitive to depict by shadowgraphs, take shadowgraphs of.
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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..a fractured finger bone at St. Thomas's Hospital.
shadowˈgraphic adj. pertaining to shadowgraphs.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [adjective] > shadowgraph
shadowgraphic1897
1897 Strand Mag. Dec. 625/2 Mr. Devant..actually gave his shadowgraphic entertainment in the dazzling glare of a noon-day sun.
ˈshadowgraphist n. one who produces shadowgraphs.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > image from shadow on screen > one who produces
shadowgraph1886
shadowgraphist1888
shadowist1902
1888 Weekly Scotsm. 29 Sept. 4/8 Mons. F. Trewey, famed as a shadowgraphist.
ˈshadowgraphy n. the production of shadowgraphs.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > image from shadow on screen > production of
shadowgraphy1896
1896 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Mar. 678 Shadowgraphy is an impossible monster.
1902 Music Hall & Showman 28 Mar. His répertoire consists of shadowgraphy, conjuring [etc.].
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