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SKIAGRAPH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skiagraph mean? 

SKIAGRAPH (noun)
  The noun SKIAGRAPH has 1 sense:

1. a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)play

  Familiarity information: SKIAGRAPH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SKIAGRAPH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

radiogram; radiograph; shadowgraph; skiagram; skiagraph

Hypernyms ("skiagraph" is a kind of...):

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skiagraph"):

autoradiograph (a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed)

roentgenogram; X-ray; X-ray photograph; X-ray picture; X ray (a radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays; used in medical diagnosis)


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