diagraphy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process of changing the way something is expressed or transcribed from one medium to another.
Uncountable
noun
The teaching of drawing in Ancient Greece using a stylus on a wax-covered wooden tablet, or this technique of drawing on wax.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Evolution of P waves velocity induced by flooding-drying monitored by seismic diagraphy within the intercalary marl (Balland & Mazière in GISOS, 2005)."
- "Diagraphy probing is particularly suited to locating rockhead and the identification of cavities in the karstic environment."
- "The measurement apparatus (impedance bridge type) have a sensitivity of 10⁻¹⁵ to 10⁻¹⁶ in the field or in diagraphy (borehole logging), and 5×10⁻⁸ in the laboratory, the values encountered range from -10⁻⁵ to 1."
- "It was first commercially used in geophysics by Conrad Schlumberger (1920), especially as a downhole measurement tool for diagraphy;"
- "In addition, a number of new possibilities would be opened up to diagraphy – e.g., radiography of movements, kinematographic radiography, and radiography of those in a state of convulsion."
- "Furthermore, kymographic pictures are hazy and sometimes distorted, while the pictures obtained by diagraphy are sharp and unobstructed."