psychograph
Americannoun
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Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
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a psychologically oriented biography.
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This is not a conventional biography, but something that might be called a "psychograph."
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H. C. Lavery of Minneapolis contributed a "psychograph," a hemispherical metal framework which is fitted over the head.
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A kind of psychograph may explain and link these three plays.
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But if Author Cason was right about his countrymen's taste in reading, most of them would never even see his "psychograph."
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"Steve," she began, "I was in charge of the psychograph tests taken of all the workers at the projectile operation after the first mishap—" "How did you know about the second?"
From Sabotage in Space by Glanzman, Louis
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