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diagraph
[ dahy-uh-graf, -grahf ]
noun
- a device for drawing, used in reproducing outlines, plans, etc., mechanically on any desired scale.
- a combined protractor and scale.
diagraph
/ -ˌɡræf; ˈdaɪəˌɡrÉ‘Ëf /
noun
- a device for enlarging or reducing maps, plans, etc
- a protractor and scale used in drawing
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of diagraph1
C19: from French diagraphe, from Greek diagraphein to represent with lines; see diagram
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Example Sentences
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It happens that the most frequent English vowel diagraph is ea.
This is the usual behavior of plaintext h: the diagraph he is commonplace, but eh is unusual; th is the most frequent diagraph of all, but ht less so.
In the orthography of the Félibres the diagraph ue is used as we find it in Old French to represent this vowel.
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On this point, priority has been claimed by Swaim in a book that appeared at Philadelphia in 1829 under the title of The Mural Diagraph, and in a communication inserted in the Comptes Rendus of the Academic des Sciences for Nov.
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