• (n.) An instrument for recording minute intervals of time. The record is made by the power of a magnetic field, due to an electric signaling current, to turn the plane of polarization of light. A flash, coinciding in time and duration with the signal, is thus produced and is photographed on a moving plate. • (n.) An instrument for the p...
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Pho`to·chron'o·graph noun [
Photo- +
chronograph .]
1. (Physics) An instrument for recording minute intervals of time. The record is made by the power of a magnetic field, due to an electric signaling current, to turn the plane of polarization of light. A flash, coinciding...
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photochronograph 1. An instrument for taking a series of instantaneous photographs at regular short intervals of time; also, each of the photographs so taken. 2. An instrument by which a beam of light is caused to produce a photographic image at some precise instant of time; for example, so as to show the exact time at which a star crosses the meri...
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