skiagraph

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Noun

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skiagraph (plural skiagraphs)

  1. (physics) Alternative form of sciagraph

Verb

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skiagraph (third-person singular simple present skiagraphs, present participle skiagraphing, simple past and past participle skiagraphed)

  1. Alternative form of sciagraph
    • 1909, Herbert McIntosh, Practical handbook of medical electricity for students and practitioners:
      The target should, therefore, be adjusted so as to throw the rays as nearly as possible perpendicularly upon the parts to be skiagraphed.
    • 1925, Charles Edmund Kells, The Dentist's Own Book:
      She came over to me and I skiagraphed the tooth (without charge — I should hope).
    • 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 198:
      By the end of September, X-ray equipment had been installed and 16 patients had been 'skiagraphed'.