PHOTOCHRONOGRAPH


Meaning of PHOTOCHRONOGRAPH in English

— photochronography /foh'toh kreuh nog"reuh fee/ , n.

/foh'teuh kron"euh graf', -grahf'/ , n.

1. a device formerly used for taking a series of instantaneous photographs of a rapidly moving object.

2. a picture taken by such a device.

3. a chronograph in which the tracing or record is made by a pencil of light on a sensitized surface.

4. an instrument for measuring small intervals of time by the photographic trace of a pencil of light.

[ 1885-90; PHOTO- + CHRONOGRAPH ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .