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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art or practice of producing shadow-pictures on a screen.
  • noun The art or practice of making photographic prints by placing an object between a sensitive surface and a source of radiant energy, such as radium salt, an X-ray bulb, etc., and then developing the latent image; sciagraphy.

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  • "The art or practice of making photographic prints by placing an object between a sensitive surface and a source of radiant energy, such as radium salt, an X-ray bulb, etc., and then developing the latent image; sciagraphy."

    --Cent. Dict.

    August 24, 2012