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Photo-  pref.  A combining form from Gr. fws, fwtos, light; as, photography, phototype, photometer.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Photo-" Quotes from Famous Books



... article on the history of Bermuda was compiled by the author of "Stark's Illustrated Bermuda Guide," published by the Photo-Electrotype Company, of 63 Oliver Street, Boston. The work contains about two hundred pages and is embellished with sixteen photo-prints, numerous engravings, and a new map of Bermuda made from the ...
— Bay State Monthly, Vol. II. No. 5, February, 1885 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various

... is a certain minimal rate of alternation required to produce a just constant sensation. This minimal speed of succession is called the critical period. Now, Marbe calls the effect on the retina of a light-stimulation which lasts for the unit of time, the 'photo-chemical unit-effect.' And he says (op. cit., S. 387): "If we call the unit of time 1[sigma], the sensation for each point on the retina in each unit of time is a function of the simultaneous and the few immediately preceding unit-effects; this ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... off Sir George's table, I think," said Grier, with elaborate innocence; "someone must have took it out of your photo-box." ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... signals no longer sounded and the point of light ceased its irregular motion, becoming almost stationary. The chief pilot brought both cross-hairs directly upon the brilliant point, which for some time they had been approaching more and more nearly, adjusted the photo-cells and amplifiers which would hold them immovably upon it, and at the calculated second of time, cut out the starting power by means of another set of automatically timed relays. When only the regular driving power was left, and the acceleration had been checked and found ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith



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