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radiograms

radiograms is the plural of radiogram.

Meaning of radiogram

Noun (1)

radiogram (plural radiograms)

  1. Synonym of radiograph (“an image, often a photographic negative, produced by radiation other than ordinary light; especially an X-ray photograph”).
    • Following my usual custom, with some difficulty I removed the radiogram from the mount and found in the upper one half of the left border a radiopaque shadow in the area previously covered by the film mount frame. […] This indicated that another radiogram should be made, which revealed an impacted...1928 July, C. S. Klinkert, “An Unusual Dental Anomaly”, in B. W. Carr, editor, United States Veterans’ Bureau Medical Bulletin, volume IV, number VII, Washington, D.C.: United States Government...
    Synonyms:
    radiograph

Noun (2)

radiogram (plural radiograms)

  1. (historical) Synonym of radiotelegram (“a message, like a telegram, transmitted by wireless telegraphy (“telegraphy by radio rather than by transmission cables”)”).
    • Sec. 7. That a person, company, or corporation within the jurisdiction of the United States shall not knowingly utter or transmit, or cause to be uttered or transmitted, any false or fraudulent distress signal or call or false or fraudulent signal, call, or other radiogram of any kind.1912 August 13, “[Laws and Regulations] An Act to Regulate Radio-communication, Approved August 13th, 1912”, in The Year-book of Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony, New York, N.Y.: Wireless Press...
    Synonyms:
    radiotelegram

Noun (3)

radiogram (plural radiograms)

  1. (historical) Synonym of radiogramophone (“a gramophone record player that incorporates a radio receiver”).
    • She comes in with a worried, puzzled expression. Then her spirits suddenly revive; she switches on the radiogram and dances gaily for her own amusement.1935, Michael Egan, The Dominant Sex: A Play in Three Acts, London: Victor Gollancz, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 86
    Synonyms:
    radiogramophone

Questions about radiograms

What is radiograms the plural of?
Radiograms is the plural of radiogram.

Words near radiograms in the dictionary

  1. radiogram
  2. radiogrammatic
  3. radiogrammetry
  4. radiogramophone
  5. radiogramophones
  6. radiograms
  7. radiograph
  8. radiographed
  9. radiographer
  10. radiographers
  11. radiographic

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