shadowgraph
verbEtymology From shadow + -graph.
1
To outline in a shadow-picture on a screen.
2
Arts, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Photography To take a picture by means of X-ray, radium, or similar source of actinic radiation.
shadowgraph
nounEtymology From shadow + -graph.
1
A shadow-picture; a radiograph or X-ray photograph; a sciagram.
- `There you have its exemplification, a shadowgraph of vapour, penetrated by a single concrete element - my Mind.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 108:
2
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics An optical technique of visualizing patterns of fluid flow by using differences in refractive index
- Derived terms
- shadowgraphic, shadowgraphist, shadowgraphy