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• Roentgen ray
  Roentgen ray

  noun

  x-ray.
• roentgen ray
  roentgen ray

  noun

  a former name for X-ray

Roentgen ray

American  

noun

1. (sometimes lowercase) x-ray.

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roentgen ray British  

noun

1. a former name for X-ray

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Etymology

Origin of Roentgen ray

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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His thought is as luminous as a Roentgen ray.

From The Life Radiant by Whiting, Lilian

What miracles are wireless telegraphy, flying-machines, the Roentgen ray!

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Almost do we think that the Roentgen ray, the wireless telegraphy, the analysis of the light of the stars, the serum control of disease are the product of what we might call pure fancy.

From The Holy Earth by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

Nothing could more vividly bear out this gentleman than contemplation of the possibilities of the Roentgen ray.

From Peeps at People by Holliday, Robert Cortes

Galvanism was so called precisely as the Roentgen ray was christened at a later day—as a safe means of begging the question as to the nature of the phenomena involved.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith

Dr. Lawrence N. Smith of Boston reported to the doctors that, in 750 cases, he found that roentgen ray treatment reduced the severity of the paroxyms and shortened the course of the disease.

From Time Magazine Archive