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

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

But the women who can see clear through a man, like a Roentgen ray, do not invite soft demonstration.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Hubbard, Elbert

Were it possible to probe the recesses of cerebration by some psychological process as searching as the Roentgen ray, many strange beliefs would be dragged from secret chambers sedulously guarded, where mental fetiches are worshipped.

From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

But nothing less than the Roentgen ray would have revealed the young man, who was stealthily watching the ferocious buck.

From Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

In view of the discovery of the X or Roentgen ray, the ability to see through a stone wall does not seem so strange as it did before that discovery.

From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by Alpheus, A.