Meanings
- uncountableThe automated monitoring of boreholes.
Diagraphy probing is particularly suited to locating rockhead and the identification of cavities in the karstic environment.
2012, M. J. Walker, Hot Deserts: Engineering, Geology and Geomorphology, page 2093 more examples
Evolution of P waves velocity induced by flooding-drying monitored by seismic diagraphy within the intercalary marl (Balland & Mazière in GISOS, 2005).
2006, M. Ghoreychi, “Coupled processes involved in post-mining”, in Alain van Cotthem, Robert Charlier, Jean-Francois Thimus, editor, Eurock 2006: Multiphysics Coupling and Long Term Behaviour in Rock Mechanics, page 50The 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.
2012, Etienne du Trémolet de Lacheisserie, Damien Gignoux, Michel Schlenker, Magnetism: II-Materials and Applications, page 391It was first commercially used in geophysics by Conrad Schlumberger (1920), especially as a downhole measurement tool for diagraphy;
2013, André Revil, Abderrahim Jardani, The Self-Potential Method, page 15 - obsoleteuncountableThe use of X-ray imagery; radiography.
To judge by the illustrations and text, diagraphy has so far found its greatest application in the study of the chest .
1939, American Quarterly of Roentgenology - Volume 42, page 1392 more examples
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.
1910, Frederick Dessauer, “A New Method of Instantatneous Radiography”, in Archives of the Roentgen Ray, volume 14, page 258Furthermore, kymographic pictures are hazy and sometimes distorted, while the pictures obtained by diagraphy are sharp and unobstructed.
1939, American Review of Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases, page 138 - uncountableThe process of changing the way something is expressed or transcribed from one medium to another.
This is a question of the madness of writing through several languages, in a genealogical diagraphy.
2019, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Plural Maghreb: Writings on Postcolonialism2 more examples
And hence, to ward off such criticism, the concept of the "diagraphy" was born —Mortified's odd editorial process by which we assemble actual childhood words into unique autobiographical tales.
2006, David Nadelberg, MortifiedLyotard thus characterises mise-en-scène as a somatography: a transcribing of linguistic signifiers on and for bodies, and as a diagraphy: a change in the space of transcription, from linguistic signifiers (primary space) to sensations affecting the bodies of the audience (the other space).
2017, Costica Bradatan, Camil Ungureanu, Cinema and Sacrifice, page 149 - uncountableThe teaching of drawing in Ancient Greece using a stylus on a wax-covered wooden tablet, or this technique of drawing on wax.
Diagraphy, or the study of drawing, was then introduced as an essential part; and as such it has been considered both by Aristotle and Pliny.
1794, Cornelius Pauw, Philosophical Dissertations on the Greeks - Volume 1, page 1512 more examples
It includes stereotypeing and automatic or chemical engraving in relief, as well as machines for the purpose of making engravings, pantography, diagraphy, glyphography, electrotypography, and a variety of other curious processes.
1880, Joseph Maberly, Theodore Henry Fielding, Robert Hoe, The Print Collector, page 318One might deduct from this passage that the portrayal of young apprentices with a drawing board may have been a reference to antigue 'diagraphy' (see also fig. 68) and, besides referring to Usus, played a role in elevating the status of the art of drawing and painting.
2009, Ernst van de Wetering, Rembrandt: The Painter at Work, page 59
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