Scotograph
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Scotograph is a noun meaning (occultism) An image of a ghost or other apparition appearing on unexposed film.
Meaning
(occultism) An image of a ghost or other apparition appearing on unexposed film.
More Meanings
- (photography, obsolete, rare) An impression made on a photographic plate by a radioactive substance without the intervention of any opaque object other than the screen of the plate.
- (obsolete, rare) An instrument for writing in the dark, or by the blind.
Example Sentences
Scotograph or writing-machine for use of the blind
The spirit-faces are sometimes obtained on ordinary paper without the aid of a camera and are called Scotographs.
These images were called “scotographs” and sometimes contained messages allegedly written by the hands of the spirits themselves.
"Scotograph" is likely to stick as the popular term for portraits taken by the Röntgen process. It means "shade picture," and its analogy with photograph, which is a "light picture," is sufficiently manifest to help on its vogue.
Word Forms
- scotographs
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include scotomy, escroll, scaevity, astroscopy, scrutore, scoutwatch.
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