diagraphy

Noun

diagraphy (uncountable)

1. The automated monitoring of boreholes.
   • Evolution of P waves velocity induced by flooding-drying monitored by seismic diagraphy within the intercalary marl (Balland & Mazière in GISOS, 2005).2006, M. Ghoreychi, “Coupled processes involved in post-mining”, in Alain van Cotthem, Robert Charlier, Jean-Francois Thimus, editor, Eurock 2006: Multiphysics Coupling and Long Term Behaviour in...
   • Diagraphy probing is particularly suited to locating rockhead and the identification of cavities in the karstic environment.2012, M. J. Walker, Hot Deserts: Engineering, Geology and Geomorphology, page 209
2. (obsolete) The use of X-ray imagery; radiography.
   • In addition, a number of new possibilities would be opened up to diagraphy – e.g., radiography of movements, kinematographic radiography, and radiography of those in a state of convulsion.1910, Frederick Dessauer, “A New Method of Instantatneous Radiography”, in Archives of the Roentgen Ray, volume 14, page 258
   • Furthermore, kymographic pictures are hazy and sometimes distorted, while the pictures obtained by diagraphy are sharp and unobstructed.1939, American Review of Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases, page 138
3. The process of changing the way something is expressed or transcribed from one medium to another.
   • And hence, to ward off such criticism, the concept of the "diagraphy" was born —Mortified's odd editorial process by which we assemble actual childhood words into unique autobiographical tales.2006, David Nadelberg, Mortified
   • Lyotard thus characterises mise-en-scène as a somatography: a transcribing of linguistic signifiers on and for bodies, and as a diagraphy: a change in the space of transcription, from linguistic signifiers (primary space) to sensations affecting the bodies of the audience (the other space).2017, Costica Bradatan, Camil Ungureanu, Cinema and Sacrifice, page 149
4. The teaching of drawing in Ancient Greece using a stylus on a wax-covered wooden tablet, or this technique of drawing on wax.
   • Diagraphy, or the study of drawing, was then introduced as an essential part; and as such it has been considered both by Aristotle and Pliny.1794, Cornelius Pauw, Philosophical Dissertations on the Greeks - Volume 1, page 151
   • It includes stereotypeing and automatic or chemical engraving in relief, as well as machines for the purpose of making engravings, pantography, diagraphy, glyphography, electrotypography, and a variety of other curious processes.1880, Joseph Maberly, Theodore Henry Fielding, Robert Hoe, The Print Collector, page 318