'radiograph' definitions:
Definition of 'radiograph'
(from WordNet)
noun
A photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) [syn: radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagraph, skiagram]
Definition of 'radiograph'
From: GCIDE
- radiograph \ra"di*o*graph\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*[-o]*gr[a^]f), 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]
Definition of 'radiograph'
From: GCIDE
- radiograph \ra"di*o*graph\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*[-o]*gr[a^]f), v. t. To make a radiograph of. -- {ra`di*og"ra*pher} (r[=a]`d[i^]*[o^]g"r[.a]*f[~e]r), n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]