RADIOGRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radiogram mean? 

• RADIOGRAM (noun)
  The noun RADIOGRAM has 2 senses:

1. a message transmitted by wireless telegraphy

2. a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)

  Familiarity information: RADIOGRAM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIOGRAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A message transmitted by wireless telegraphy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("radiogram" is a kind of...):

message (a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

radiogram; radiograph; shadowgraph; skiagram; skiagraph

Hypernyms ("radiogram" is a kind of...):

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radiogram"):

autoradiograph (a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed)

roentgenogram; X-ray; X-ray photograph; X-ray picture; X ray (a radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays; used in medical diagnosis)