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A phototheodolite, or a camera designed for use in photogrammetry. --Pho`to*gram*met"ric (#), Pho`to*gram*met"ric*al (#), a.

A method of surveying or map making by photography, used also in determining the height and motions of clouds, sea waves, and the like.

A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

One who practices, or is skilled in, photography.

Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically prepared paper, from photographic negatives, by exposure to light.…

A photographer.

An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.

A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and a camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.

The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.

A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.

A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun.

A double-lens instrument for measuring slight variations of the sun's diameter by photography, utilizing the common chord of two overlapping images.

A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.

One who practices, or one who employs, photolithography.

Of or pertaining to photolithography; produced by photolithography.

The art or process of producing photolithographs.

Pertaining to photology, or the doctrine of light.

One who studies or expounds the laws of light.

The doctrine or science of light, explaining its nature and phenomena; optics.

Luminescent by exposure to light waves. -- Pho`to*lu`mi*nes"cence (#), n.