GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Found 2 definitions

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   radiograph (rāˈdĭ‑ṓ‑grăf), n.  [Radio- + -graph.]
   1. An instrument for measuring and recording solar radiation.
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
   
   
   2.  An image or picture produced upon a sensitive surface, as of a photographic or fluorescent plate, by some form of penetrating radiation other than light, as X-rays, beta rays, etc.; esp., a picture of the internal structure of opaque objects traversed by the rays; a skiagraph.  When the picture is produced upon photographic film by X-rays, the picture is usually called an X-ray photo or X-ray.  When an image is produced on photographic film by a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film, in a manner so as to record the spatial distribution of the radioactive substance, the resulting image is called an autoradiograph or autoradiogram.
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
   
   
         
       

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   radiograph (rāˈdĭ‑ṓ‑grăf), v. t. To make a radiograph of. -- ra`di*og"ra*pher (rāˌdĭ‑ŏgˈrȧ‑fẽr), n.
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]