Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The geometrical representation of a vertical section of a building, showing its interior structure or arrangement.
  • noun A photograph taken with the X-rays. See ray. Also skiagraph.
  • To take a sciagraph or radiograph of. Also skiagraph.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Arch.) An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under section.
  • noun (Phys.) A radiograph.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun architecture, archaic A vertical section of a building; a sciagraphy.
  • noun physics A radiograph.

Etymologies

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See sciagraphy.

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