heliograph

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈhiː.li.əˌɡɹæf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An apparatus for signalling by means of a moveable mirror which reflects flashes of sunlight.
    — 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.
  2. A heliogram.
  3. An instrument for measuring the intensity of sunlight.
  4. A device for photographing the sun.
  5. A photograph. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To send a message by heliograph. transitive
    — With damnatory dot and dash he heliographed his wife / Some interesting details of the General's private life.
  2. To send a heliograph. intransitive
  3. To photograph by sunlight. dated,transitive

词形变化

heliographs plural heliographs present,singular,third-person heliographing participle,present heliographed participle,past heliographed past

词汇关系

衍生词
heliographer heliographic heliography oroheliograph photoheliograph radioheliograph spectroheliograph

词源

词源 1
From helio- + -graph.
词源 2
From helio- + -graph.
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