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thermographic

  • a word derived from thermography.
    thermography
    noun
    a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.

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They paid for a thermographic survey of their house.

From BBC Nov. 9, 2022

Taken together, these factors conspire to make thermographic “fever screening” drones a deeply dubious technology.

From Slate May 20, 2020

Earlier this month, an Egyptian and French team conducted thermographic, or infrared, scans, and while the results seemed to indicate some irregularities, they were inconclusive, possibly because the room was too hot.

From National Geographic Nov. 28, 2015

Even before the event was awarded to the country, Equatorial Guinea had launched a series of preparatory steps to deal with the disease, purchasing special ambulances, ambulatory hospitals and thermographic cameras to screen visitors.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 22, 2014

A truly high-tech test will use thermographic cameras, which detect infrared light, to detect exactly where heat might be leaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

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