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adjective

Heliographic adj. (Astron.)

Of or pertaining to a description of the sun. Note: Heliographic longitudes and latitudes of spots on the sun's surface are analogous to geographic longitudes and latitudes of places on the earth.

Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.

Heliographic chart. See under Chart.

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Etymology of 'Heliographic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heliographic" Quotes from Famous Books

... on daily. On the 17th, heliographic communication was opened with General Ellis. On the following day an order was flashed to them, to join General Jeffreys in the Mamund valley. This was impracticable, however, until General Ellis ...

— Through Three Campaigns - A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti • G. A. Henty

... Paula and Charlotte De Stancy, the thought that the photograph might have been a fabrication was probably the last. To them that picture of Somerset had all the cogency of direct vision. Paula's experience, much less Charlotte's, had never lain in the fields of heliographic science, and they would as soon have thought that the sun could again stand still upon Gibeon, as that it could be made to falsify men's characters in delineating their features. What Abner Power thought he himself best knew. He might have seen such pictures before; ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy