Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tomographic

/toʊmoʊɡɹˈæfɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English

Syllables: to-mo-graph-ic
IPA: /toʊmoʊɡɹˈæfɪk/

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to imaging by the method of rotating a radiation source and the accompanying sensor so that areas outside the required plane of investigation are not in focus.

Example Sentences

"The patient was examined using a positron emission tomographic system."
"In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels."

Etymology

Etymology tree English tomography Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English tomographic From tomography + -ic.

Derived Forms

cryotomographic holotomographic microtomographic nanotomographic polytomographic tomographically

Phrases

computed tomography

Frequently Paired Words

subtomographic tomogram tomography computed tomography

Rhymes With

traffic graphic geographic demographic photographic pornographic infographic holographic topographic ethnographic stratigraphic oceanographic

Questions

How do you pronounce tomographic?: The recorded pronunciation is /toʊmoʊɡɹˈæfɪk/.
What does tomographic mean?: Of or pertaining to imaging by the method of rotating a radiation source and the accompanying sensor so that areas outside the required plane of investigation are not in focus.
Where does tomographic come from?: Etymology tree English tomography Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English tomographic From tomography + -ic.

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