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RADIOGRAPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Photography that uses other kinds of radiation than visible light
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("radiography" is a kind of...):
photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radiography"):
roentgenography; X-ray photography (radiography that uses X-rays to produce a roentgenogram)
xeroradiography (radiography using X-rays and xerographic (rather than roentgenographic) techniques)
Derivation:
radiographer (a person who makes radiographs)
radiographic (relating to or produced by radiography)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The process of making a radiograph; producing an image on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("radiography" is a kind of...):
photography (the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radiography"):
autoradiography (producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed)
Derivation:
radiographer (a person who makes radiographs)
radiographic (relating to or produced by radiography)
