Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A message transmitted by wireless telegraphy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A picture taken by means of the action of Röntgen rays, or of similar obscure rays such as those emitted by radium, upon a sensitized plate; a print from a radiographic negative.

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  • noun A message, like a telegram, transmitted by radio rather than wires.
  • noun An entertainment device that combined a radio and a record player or gramophone.
  • noun A radiograph.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
  • noun a message transmitted by wireless telegraphy

Etymologies

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Blend of radio and telegram

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Blend of radio and gramophone

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radio- + -gram

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  • another x-ed x-ray term

    March 2, 2012

  • A radio and record-player.

    he'd stay open playing his ancient opera records on one of those radiograms with Bakelite knobs and an arm that moved all on its own to touch dowsn on the black spinning surface of the vinyl.
    Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (New York: Grove Press, 2011), p. 92.

    Off the lobby to the right was the best parlour, distinguished by a standard lamp, a radiogram, a vinyl three-piece suite and a display cabinet.

    Id. at 43.


    <blockquote>On occasions we have known demons inhabit pieces of furniture. There was a radiogram that had a demon in it&mdash;every time the poor woman tuned in to <I>Songs of Praise</I>, all she could hear were manic cackles. The valves were sent away to be blessed and when they were refitted the demon had gone. It might have been something to do with the soldering but nobody mentioned that.</blockquote><I>Id.</I> at 80.

    January 12, 2016