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Photogrammetry. -- Pho`to*top`o*graph"ic (#), Pho`to*top`o*graph"ic*al (#), a.

Designating a photomechanical process for making reproductions in natural colors by three printings.

Same as Heliotropic.

The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.

A plate or block with a printing surface (usually in relief) obtained from a photograph; also, any one of the many methods of processes by which such a printing surface is obtained.

Of or pertaining to a phototype or phototypy.

Same as Phototypy.

The art or process of producing phototypes.

One versed in phytotomy.

The dissection of plants; vegetable anatomy.

A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter.

See Pneumothorax.

A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."

An incision into the rectum, as for the division of a stricture.

Same as Monotremata.

Same as Malacopoda.

exemplar; archetype. They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype. Burke.

Another, or an additional, separation into parts.

A directive influence exercised by a mass of matter upon growing organs. Encyc. Brit.

A horse. [Obs.] Chaucer. Thorold Rogers.