Meaning of diagraphy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The automated monitoring of boreholes.
   uncountable
2. The use of X-ray imagery; radiography.
   obsolete, uncountable
3. The process of changing the way something is expressed or transcribed from one medium to another.
   uncountable
4. The teaching of drawing in Ancient Greece using a stylus on a wax-covered wooden tablet, or this technique of drawing on wax.
   uncountable

Examples

“Evolution of P waves velocity induced by flooding-drying monitored by seismic diagraphy within the intercalary marl (Balland & Mazière in GISOS, 2005).”

“Diagraphy probing is particularly suited to locating rockhead and the identification of cavities in the karstic environment.”

“The 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.”

“It was first commercially used in geophysics by Conrad Schlumberger (1920), especially as a downhole measurement tool for diagraphy;”

“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.”

“Furthermore, kymographic pictures are hazy and sometimes distorted, while the pictures obtained by diagraphy are sharp and unobstructed.”

“To judge by the illustrations and text, diagraphy has so far found its greatest application in the study of the chest .”

“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.”

“Lyotard 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).”

“This is a question of the madness of writing through several languages, in a genealogical diagraphy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“One 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.”

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