Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device for transmitting messages by reflecting sunlight.
- noun A device capable of imaging the surface and outer regions of the sun.
- intransitive verb To send (a message) by heliograph.
- intransitive verb To send a heliograph.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A heliotrope; especially, a movable mirror used in signaling, surveying, etc., to flash a beam of light to a distance.
- noun In photography: An instrument for taking photographs of the sun.
- noun A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.
- To communicate or signal by means of a heliograph.
- To photograph.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.
- noun An instrument for taking photographs of the sun.
- noun An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See
Heliotrope , 3. - transitive verb To telegraph, or signal, with a heliograph.
- transitive verb To photograph by sunlight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
apparatus forsignalling by means of amoveable mirror whichreflects flashes ofsunlight . - noun A
heliogram . - noun An
instrument formeasuring theintensity of sunlight. - noun A
device forphotographing thesun . - noun obsolete A
photograph . - verb transitive To send a
message by heliograph. - verb intransitive To send a heliograph.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays
- noun an apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun's rays off and on
Etymologies
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Examples
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The book that Uncle Ed sent us had in it a description of a heliograph, that is, an instrument for sending signals with flashes of sunlight.
The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island A. Russell Bond
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If the Konor use a visual code, such as heliograph or semaphore, our energy scans would not necessarily detect them. "
The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students) 2010
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An industrial civilization does not easily go back to the Stone Age, but people adjust to what feels like the 19th-century frontier another favorite Heinlein setting: Ceramics replace metals, heliograph substitutes for radio, airdrops come in from outside.
By Gaslight, Hunting The Undead Tom Shippey 2011
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We tried by radio and by heliograph, in accordance with internationally accepted means.
The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009
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In this world of the twenty-first century, with all but five per cent of the population concentrated in the mechanized cities, to be out here, miles from civilization, beyond all hope of communication, off the regular air lanes and without radiophone or heliograph.
"The Barrier" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2009
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Let 'em stand up and vote in opposition to logic and morality, or else grow a spine and some cajones and vote for the good of the country, the troops and what's left of their souls. heliograph wrote on September 19, 2007 2: 01 AM:
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Tell him how you feel. heliograph wrote on September 18, 2007 9: 44 PM:
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It was a lieutenant and a couple of privates of the 8th Hussars, with a stand like a theodolite, which the artilleryman told me was a heliograph.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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Well, I was gonna chime in earlier on the clearly delusional heliograph, but it appears my work has been done for me.
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qms commented on the word heliograph
Olympian systems were naff,
So Zeus had a word with his staff:
"The line to Parnassus
Is slow as molasses;
Let's upgrade that heliograph!"
October 29, 2014
bilby commented on the word heliograph
Excellent!
October 30, 2014
qms commented on the word heliograph
Thank you, bilby. I raise a cup of nectar.
October 30, 2014