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x-ray
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1896, X-rays , translation of German X-strahlen , from X , algebraic symbol for an unknown quantity, + Strahl (plural Strahlen ) "beam, ray." Coined 1895 by German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), who discovered them, to suggest that the exact ...
Wikipedia
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In chess , the term X-ray or X-ray attack is sometimes used (1) as a synonym for skewer . The term is also sometimes used to refer to a tactic where a piece either (2) indirectly attacks an enemy piece through another piece or pieces or (3) defends a friendly ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
X ray \X ray\, X-ray \X-ray\([e^]ks"r[=a]`), n. [so called by its discoverer because of its enigmatical character, x being an algebraic symbol for an unknown quantity.] (Physics) originally, any of the rays produced when cathode rays strike upon surface ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of X-ray English)
Usage examples of x-ray.
The acidhead tried to use his eyes like electrical x-rays to see those Madonna milk duds beneath her angel shirt.
X-ray film displayed off to one side and at the blood-pressure indicator, which the anesthetist read off at thirty-second intervals.
The band of gel containing each protein can either be cut out with a razorblade and the radioactivity in it counted, or the whole gel can be placed against X-ray film and an autoradiogram made, just as with the 2-DG experiment.
The first was to try to produce, through X-rays, ultraviolet light, or chemicals, mutant bees that might then be crossbred with the Africans.
Its skin was cellulose acetate butyrate, a plastic transparent not only to light but also to X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.
For the surgical techniques we have observed among the Chimu, some sort of X-ray device as an aid to diagnosis would be virtually a necessity.
Steve Cogswell had managed to save copies of some of the missing photos and x-rays and turned them over to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
I told you that in addition to the X-ray being normal, the frenulum is intact?
The hysterosalpingogram is an X-ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes.
X-ray people messed about with him of course, and the orderly in the ward probably helped Esther get him on the trolley, and things like that, but it was only sort of last-minute things.
Perhaps that sighting was a midcourse correction and the x-ray source is an attempt at communication.
My skin is an exotic armor, pebbled with monocrystalline diamonds held in a shock-absorbent quantum dot matrix that can be fast-tuned to match the color of any background from radio frequencies through to soft X-rays.
Grantville will have a working X-ray spectrometer that will be able to do a nondestructive assay on any samples of slag sent back to it.
X-ray tests, and ultra-violet and infra-red, the experts with their photomicrography and .
X-ray lasers snarled at ranges as low as fifty kilometers--ranges at which it was literally impossible to miss-- and hetlasers and force beams smashed back with equal fury.