aerial photograph

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noun

a photograph taken from an aircraft or satellite in flight.

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Also called aerophoto, air photograph.

Origin of aerial photograph

First recorded in 1895–1900

OTHER WORDS FROM aerial photograph

aerial photography, noun

Words nearby aerial photograph

aerialist, aeriality, aerial ladder, aerial mine, aerial perspective, aerial photograph, aerial pingpong, aerial root, aerial survey, aerial tanker, aerial top dressing

How to use aerial photograph in a sentence

In aerial photographs, the streets and foundations of Mologa formed an eerie geometry emerging from the lakebed.
The Soviets turned the Volga River into a machine. Then the machine broke.|Olga Dobrovidova|December 15, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Using aerial photographs, cellphone or satellite technology, Leap users can order real-time 3-D renderings without having to climb onto the roof or pull out a tape measure.
Leap started as a hobby. Now, it’s a multimillion-dollar platform.|Thomas Heath|April 16, 2021|Washington Post
The team dug up declassified footage of Cold-War-era spy satellites from the 60s and 70s, old-school maps from the 60s, and aerial photographs from the 80s and 90s.
Cold War-era satellites bring bad news about melting glaciers around Everest|María Paula Rubiano A.|November 23, 2020|Popular-Science
What the people of Mosul now fear most is aerial bombardment of their own city.
Has the Kurdish Victory at Sinjar Turned the Tide of ISIS War?|Niqash|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

No matter what Hitchcock said, what he did was to photograph our fears and make palpable the invisible.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
An aerial image shows what appears to be a spa, roiling water apparently carrying no nasty connotations.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built|Michael Daly|December 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.
The Best Gift Books of 2014|William O’Connor|December 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So what of the photograph of what the Senate report described as a “well-used waterboard” with buckets around it, at the Salt Pit?
CIA Interrogation Chief: ‘Rectal Feeding,’ Broken Limbs Are News to Me|Kimberly Dozier|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She was scared to death that the lightning would strike the house because of the radio aerial.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
I will drop his photograph into the fire, and tear the fly-leaf out of the Mrs. Browning he gave me.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
The lady who accompanied her he guessed to be her stepsister; indeed, he had seen a photograph of her at Hill Street.
The Doctor of Pimlico|William Le Queux
Was it possible, he wondered, that he had seen that striking face in some photograph, or perhaps in some illustrated paper?
The Doctor of Pimlico|William Le Queux
A photograph taken on such a night is not, however, perceptibly inferior to one taken when the seeing is perfect.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters|James Edward Keeler