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PERSPECTOGRAPH

Definition: PERSPECTOGRAPH

PERSPECTOGRAPH

Noun

1. An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Perspectograph \Per*spec"to*graph\, noun. [Latin expression perspectus (past participle of perspicere to look through) -graph.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "PERSPECTOGRAPH"

Words rhyming with "PERSPECTOGRAPH" (pronounced 'Per*spec"to*graph'): Accelerograph, Actinograph, Allograph, Anaglyptograph, Anagraph, Anapnograph, Anemograph, Anemometrograph, Antigraph, Apograph, Arcograph, Autochronograph, Barograph, Barometrograph, Barothermograph, Bibliograph, Brontograph, Cardiagraph, Cardiograph, Cardiosphygmograph, Cerograph, Chirograph, Chorograph, Chromograph, Chromolithograph, Chromophotograph, Chronograph, Chronophotograph, Cinematograph, Cinemograph, Comptograph, Copygraph, Cryptograph, Curvograph, Cyclograph, Dynamograph, Fluviograph, Galvanograph, Glyphograph, holograph, homograph, ideograph, kymograph, Macrograph, Magnetograph, Manograph, Marconigraph, Mechanograph, Melodiograph, Melograph. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PERSPECTOGRAPH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-o-p-p-p-r-r-s-t"

-2 letters: spectrograph.

-3 letters: stereograph.

-4 letters: cartoppers, porterages, preceptors, prestorage, procreates, reportages, reproaches.

-5 letters: apotheces, cartopper, copperahs, ephorates, gatherers, grapeshot, heartsore, horserace, orchestra, perorates, porterage, preachers, preceptor, procreate, properest, prophages, racehorse, recarpets, receptors, recharges, regathers, repatches, reportage, sharecrop, spaceport, threapers, torcheres.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PERSPECTOGRAPH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 45 52 53 50 45 43 54 4F 47 52 41 50 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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