skiagram

[skahy-uh-gram]

ski·a·gram

[skahy-uh-gram]
noun
1.
a picture made by outlining and shading a subject's shadow.

Origin:
1795–1805; < Greek skiā́ shadow + -gram1; compare skiagraph
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Skiagram is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
WordNet
skiagram

noun
a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) [syn: radiogram
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