Associations to the word «Heliograph»

Wiktionary

HELIOGRAPH, noun. An apparatus for signalling by means of a moveable mirror which reflects flashes of sunlight.
HELIOGRAPH, noun. A heliogram.
HELIOGRAPH, noun. An instrument for measuring the intensity of sunlight.
HELIOGRAPH, noun. A device for photographing the sun.
HELIOGRAPH, noun. (obsolete) A photograph.
HELIOGRAPH, verb. (transitive) To send a message by heliograph.
HELIOGRAPH, verb. (intransitive) To send a heliograph.
HELIOGRAPH, verb. (transitive) (dated) To photograph by sunlight.

Dictionary definition

HELIOGRAPH, noun. An apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun's rays off and on.
HELIOGRAPH, verb. Signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King