Meaning of Bucky | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ellipsis of Potter-Bucky diaphragm.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
2. A nickname for someone with the name Buck, or a given name derived from this.
3. A gun.
   British, slang
4. A surname

Equivalents

Examples

“Like for a gun, you could say a gat but that's quite an old term. Most young people now would say stralley, a tool or a bucky.”

“There are two major types of bucky assemblies: reciprocating and recipromatic. The difference is that the reciprocating bucky moves at two different speeds during the exposure […]”

“The recipromatic Bucky differs from the manually cocked Bucky in that the grid travels in both directions across the table during the exposure.”

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