Heliograph

Quick meaning: Heliograph is a noun meaning An apparatus for signalling by means of a moveable mirror which reflects flashes of sunlight.

Meaning

An apparatus for signalling by means of a moveable mirror which reflects flashes of sunlight.

More Meanings

1. A heliogram.
2. An instrument for measuring the intensity of sunlight.
3. A device for photographing the sun.
4. (transitive) To send a message by heliograph.
5. (intransitive) To send a heliograph.
6. (transitive, dated) To photograph by sunlight.
7. (obsolete) A photograph.

Example Sentences

With damnatory dot and dash he heliographed his wife / Some interesting details of the General's private life.

when we stood up at nightfall we saw, in the sunset, the sparkle of the heliograph above cities, on the far side of the horizon.

It was a lieutenant and a couple of privates of the 8th Hussars, with a stand like a theodolite, which the artilleryman told me was a heliograph.

Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, / And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border, / To sit on a rock with a heliograph; but ere he left he taught / His wife the working of the Code that sets the miles at naught. / And Love had made him very sage, as Nature made her fair; / So Cupid and Apollo linked, per heliograph, the pair.

Word Forms

• heliographs
• heliographing
• heliographed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heliography, photoheliograph, heliogram, heliographer, radioheliograph, photoheliography.

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