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heliographs

heliographs is the plural of heliograph.

heliographs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of heliograph.

Meaning of heliograph

Noun

heliograph (plural heliographs)

  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...1886, Rudyard Kipling, “[Departmental Ditties] A Code of Morals”, in Departmental Ditties […], New York, N.Y.: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, published 1899, →OCLC
  2. A heliogram.
  3. An instrument for measuring the intensity of sunlight.
  4. A device for photographing the sun.
  5. (obsolete) A photograph.

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Questions about heliographs

What is heliographs the plural of?
Heliographs is the plural of heliograph.

Words near heliographs in the dictionary

  1. heliographers
  2. heliographic
  3. heliographical
  4. heliographically
  5. heliographing
  6. heliographs
  7. heliography
  8. heliogravure
  9. heliogravures
  10. heliohydroelectric
  11. heliohydroelectrical

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