Heliograph is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HELIOGRAPH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to signal by heliograph
• send (a message) by heliograph
• take a heliographic photograph of
• signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun\'s rays
NOUN:
• an apparatus for signalling by means of a movable mirror which reflects flashes of sunshine
• a signalling device by which sunlight is reflected in flashes from a movable mirror.
• a message sent by heliograph; a heliogram.
• a telescopic apparatus for photographing the sun.
• a type of early photographic engraving made using a sensitized silver plate and an asphalt or bitumen varnish.
• A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.
• An instrument for taking photographs of the sun.
• An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun\'s rays. See Heliotrope, 3.
• an apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun\'s rays off and on

Words related to HELIOGRAPH

heliographed22 heliographer21 heliographers22 heliographic23 heliographing23 heliographs20

Words that contain HELIOGRAPH

heliographs20 heliography23 heliographed22 heliographer21 heliographic23 heliographers22 heliographies22 heliographing23 heliographical25 spectroheliograph30 spectroheliographs31 spectroheliography34 spectroheliographies33

How to use HELIOGRAPH in a sentence

• These seem to be the forerunners of the heliograph.
• But the heliograph using the dot-and-dash system of the Morse code can be used to transmit any message whatever.
• The heliograph, which established communication by means of short and long light-flashes, is another important means of signaling to which the Morse code has been applied.
• The British army has made wide use of the heliograph in India and Africa.
• Signalling by means of the heliograph is practiced on bright days in regions that have no telephones.
• He therefore used the heliograph, and with it flashed the news to the Spanish stations on the Canto River, asking that reinforcements be sent him.
• I went up this morning and stood on Signal Hill where the heliograph was working yesterday, just above the camp.
• Nearly all day the heliograph was flashing to us from that far-off hill.
• The heat was intense, but the sun so splendid that I have hopes my heliograph message got through at last.
• It was again a bad day for the heliograph, and the Boers have purposely kindled a veldt fire across the line of light.
• On a low black hill beyond its banks I could see the British heliograph flashing.
• Rain fell, and though the air afterwards was strangely clear, the heliograph could not be used till the afternoon.
• At last a cipher message began to come through on the heliograph.
• There was no heliograph to cheer us up, and hardly a sound of distant guns.
• The heliograph below refused to take or send messages, and we had no definite news.
• The heliograph, worked by Captain Stratton, of the 22nd Foot, had been of the greatest use during the day, and kept me fully informed of all details.
• From far-off Umkolumbu Mountain heliograph signals were flashed to us occasionally, but in cipher, the meaning of which is known only at headquarters.
• The special correspondents were summoned in haste this morning to hear an abridged version of the heliograph message read.
• We need no heliograph signal to tell us the meaning of all this.
• Afternoon sunshine enabled General Buller to heliograph the reassuring message for which Ladysmith had been waiting so anxiously.
• A first-class heliograph is visible for a very long way, if the conditions are right.
• You see, with the heliograph the flashes are centered.
• It appeared to be on a rise, and to stand several stories above the ground, so that it might well be an ideal place for the establishment of a heliograph station.
• Then a piece of mica, or a little pool, or even a highly-polished leaf will flash like a heliograph.
• Communication has been established between points 125 miles distant by means of a heliograph with a reflecting surface of but twenty square inches.
• Although Captain Clive was perfectly satisfied with our passports and credentials he could not let us proceed until he had communicated with the Indian government by heliograph.
• We also took on the mountain a heliograph that the enemy had broken.
• They worked out a heliograph code that day, and they planned an exploring trip to Taylor Rock the next time Jack was relieved.
• She would like to have sent Jack a heliograph message, but she did not dare with the professor prowling around hunting dry limbs and bark.
• The heliograph is an instrument for signalling by means of flashes of light reflected from mirrors.
• The book that Uncle Ed sent us had in it a description of a heliograph, that is, an instrument for sending signals with flashes of sunlight.
• The heliograph was set up on the ledge at the top of the cliff.
• This led to our building a double mirrored heliograph the following summer.
• The Spaniards tried to get help from the main army by signalling with the heliograph.
• The Cubans, however, prevented the heliograph from being used, and hoped that they had the Spaniards cut off from their friends.

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