Heliograph

Definitions: Heliograph

Heliograph

Noun

1. An apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun's rays off and on.

Verb

1. Signal with a heliograph.

Date "heliograph" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Electrical Engineering	An instrument that records the duration of sunshine and gives a qualitative measure of its amount by action of sun's rays on blue print paper. Source: European Union. (references)
Geography	Instrument which records the time interval during which solar radiation reaches sufficient intensity to cast distinct shadows. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Indication	Signal, signal post; rocket, blue light; watch fire, watch tower; telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff; cresset, fiery cross; calumet; heliograph; guidon; headlight.
Painting	Photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype; negative, positive; print, glossy print, matte print; enlargement, reduction, life-size print; instant photo, Polaroid photo.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Heliograph

English words defined with "heliograph": Heliographic. (references)

Etymologies containing "heliograph": Photoheliograph. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Heliograph" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (heliograph).

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	Heliograph at Station 22 Alaska - Canada border International Boundary Commission.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Signaling with heliograph near Monument 92 Alaska - Canada border International Boundary Commission.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Alarm; alert; balefire; beam; bonfire; flare; guidepost; heliograph; lamp; lantern; lighthouse; lodestar; pharos; radar; rocket; rocket; sign; signal fire; smoke signal; beacon; warning signal; watchtower.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	A windmill flashed in the sun, and its turning blades were like a little heliograph, far away.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Heliograph" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heliograph" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "heliograph"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		heliograf. (various references)

Arabic		‏الهليوغراف تلسكوب لتصوير الشمس. (various references)

Bulgarian		хелиограф. (various references)

Czech		heliograf (Helio). (various references)

Danish		heliograf (sunshine recorder), heligraf (sunshine recorder), solautograf (sunshine recorder). (various references)

Dutch		heliograaf (sunshine recorder), zonneschijnautograaf (sunshine recorder). (various references)

Finnish		heliografi (sunshine recorder), aurinkoautografi (sunshine recorder), auringonpaistepiirturi (sunshine recorder). (various references)

French		héliographe (heliostat). (various references)

German		Heliograph (sunshine recorder). (various references)

Greek		ηλιογράφοσ, ηλιογράφος (sunshine recorder). (various references)

Hungarian		heliográf (Helio). (various references)

Italian		eliografo (sunshine recorder). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		日照計 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		にっしょうけい. (various references)

Pig Latin		eliographhay

Portuguese		heliógrafo (heliostat, sunshine recorder). (various references)

Russian		гелиограф. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		heliograf. (various references)

Spanish		heliógrafo (sunshine recorder). (various references)

Swedish		heliograf (sunshine recorder). (various references)

Thai		เครื่องส่งสัญญา�"�"้วยกระจกสะท้อนแสงจาก�"วงอาทิตย์, ส่งสั�"ญา�"โ�"ยใช้เครื่องส่งสัญญา�"�"้วยกระจกสะท้อนแสงจาก�"วงอาทิตย์. (various references)

Turkish		helyograf, pırıldak ile işaret vermek, pırıldak, güneşin fotoğrafını çeken alet, ayna telgrafı çekmek, ayna telgrafı (heliogram). (various references)

Ukranian		геліограф (heliotrope), геліогравюра. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "heliograph": heliographed, heliographic, heliographing, heliographs. (additional references)
	Words ending with "heliograph": spectroheliograph. (additional references)
	Words containing "heliograph": spectroheliographies, spectroheliographs, spectroheliography. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Heliograph" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: helioghaph, heliotroph, physiograph. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-h-i-l-o-p-r"
	-2 letters: rheophil.
	-3 letters: airhole, ephoral, harelip, peloria, pergola.
	-4 letters: ephori, epilog, galore, gaoler, gherao, glaire, gloria, goalie, gopher, hailer, hegari, hegira, higher, hirple, hoagie, holier, logier, palier, parole, proleg, rhaphe.
	-5 letters: agile, aleph, algor, argil, argle, argol, ariel, ephah, ephor, galop, gaper, gerah, glair, glare, goral, grail, grape, graph, gripe, grope, haler, haole, heigh, helio, hilar, hoper, horah, horal, lager, laigh, large, largo, liger, logia, loper, ogler, oiler, opera, oriel, pager, paler, pareo, parge, pargo, parle, parol, pearl, peril, phage, phial, pilar, pilea, pirog, plage, plier, polar, poler, prole, ralph, raphe, regal, reoil.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-h-i-l-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: heliographs.
	+2 letters: heliographed, heliographic, holographies, lithographed, lithographer.
	+3 letters: heliographing, lithographers, lithographies, phlebographic.
	+4 letters: ethnographical, hieroglyphical, lymphographies, phlebographies.
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