单词 | nyctograph |
释义 | Definition of nyctograph in English:nyctographnoun ˈnɪktə(ʊ)ɡrafˈnɪktə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf
OriginLate 19th century; earliest use found in ‘Lewis Carroll’ (1832–1898), author, mathematician, and photographer (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). From nycto- + -graph. Compare French nyctographe machine enabling the blind to write or the sighted to write in the dark, and Hellenistic Greek νυκτογραϕία writing by night. Definition of nyctograph in US English:nyctographnoun
OriginLate 19th century; earliest use found in ‘Lewis Carroll’ (1832–1898), author, mathematician, and photographer (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). From nycto- + -graph. Compare French nyctographe machine enabling the blind to write or the sighted to write in the dark, and Hellenistic Greek νυκτογραϕία writing by night. |
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