Definitions

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

  • noun An image produced by casting a shadow on a screen.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shadow-picture.
  • noun A radiograph or X-ray photograph; a sciagram.
  • To outline in a shadow-picture on a screen.
  • In photography, to take a picture of by means of X-rays, radium, or a similar source of actinic radiation.

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

  • noun physics An optical technique of visualizing patterns of fluid flow by using differences in refractive index
  • noun obsolete An X-ray image.

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)

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Examples

  • The very unfortunate name "shadowgraph" has been suggested and largely used in the newspapers, and even in medical journals.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Various

  • Now, when a foreign body impenetrable to X-rays, e.g. a bullet or a needle, has entered these tissues its location can be determined by illuminating the appropriate part of the body with X-rays and taking a shadowgraph of it on a photographic plate, whereupon the impenetrable body is immediately detected.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 - Presentation Speech 1967

  • A girl's figure made a brief shadowgraph in the light, then hurried along the sea front.

    Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

  • The Greek word for shadow is "skia," and the proper rendering, therefore, of shadowgraph is "skiagraph," corresponding to photograph.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Various

  • Like a figure of a shadowgraph he slid through its opening, and we followed.

    Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

  • On the screen before us was projected a huge shadowgraph of a chest and abdomen.

    The Dream Doctor 1908

  • At another set of windows -- now that the days are growing short and there is need of lights -- I see in shadowgraph against the curtains an occasional domestic drama.

    Chimney-Pot Papers Fritz August Gottfried Endell 1906

  • We were chums in the sense that we were almost constantly together, both at school and at home, and among the partnerships we formed was one of having amateur shadowgraph and panoramic shows in the basement of Willie's home.

    What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams 1901

  • OPTICAL COMPARATOR An optical comparator or shadowgraph (Fig. 1. 10a and 1. 10b) projects an enlarge shadow onto a screen where it may be compared to lines or to a master from which indicates the limits of the dimensions or the contour of the part being checked.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows guestb9b7f4 2010

  • a sealed envelope, "he replied, still studying the shadowgraph closely," has already been established by the well-known English scientist, Doctor Hall Edwards.

    The War Terror 1908

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