Sciagraph
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sciagraph is a noun meaning (architecture, archaic) A vertical section of a building; a sciagraphy.
Meaning
(architecture, archaic) A vertical section of a building; a sciagraphy.
More Meanings
- (physics) A radiograph.
- (transitive) To create a sciagraph (radiograph) of; to look inside by this or a similar technique.
Example Sentences
This is a text centrally about a girl who is herself an illusionistic artwork: her white skin is the canvas upon which a wholly misleading cultural portrait is sciagraphed.
The lighting from above also had a specific function: providing an even legibility to those "shaded" or sciagraphed areas treated with the technique known as schiacciato as to those of high relief.
Compared with the prior arts, the remote exposure control device of an embodiment can remotely control and monitor an FPD, facilitating realizing sciagraphing by one key and improving the work efficiency of users.
Word Forms
- sciagraphs
- sciagraphing
- sciagraphed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sciograph, skiagraph, acrography, graphogram, sinography, sinogram.
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