Word: heliographs
Translations: heliographs
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spanish
Translations:
heliógrafos, heliografías
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german
Translations:
Heliographen, Heliogravüren
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french
Translations:
héliographes, héliographies, héliographe, des héliographes, d'héliographes
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italian
Translations:
eliografie, eliografi
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portuguese
Translations:
heliógrafos, heliografias
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russian
Translations:
гелиографов
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polish
Translations:
heliografia
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ukrainian
Translations:
геліографов
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belarusian
Translations:
геліёграфамі, геліёграфа, геліёграф
The meaning and "use of": heliographs
noun
- a signaling device by which sunlight is reflected in flashes from a movable mirror. - A heliograph was a communications system consisting of two mirrors on a tripod used to flash signals with sunlight.
- a type of early photographic engraving made using a sensitized silver plate and an asphalt or bitumen varnish. - An earlier version of the heliograph known as the heliotrope was used during the American civil war.
- send (a message) by heliograph. - Garfield, just over the shoulder of Bond, was another, and it seemed as if the two were heliographing one to another from golden mirrors.
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