sb. [f. STEREO- + -GRAPH.]
1. A picture (or pair of pictures) representing the object so that it appears (or may be made to appear) solid, a stereoscopic photograph.
1859. O. W. Holmes, in Atlantic Monthly, June, 743/1. We have now obtained the double-eyed or twin pictures, or STEREOGRAPH, if we may coin a name.
1859. Jephson, Brittany, i. 6. Making stereographs of any object of interest.
1862. Weldon’s Reg., Nov., 165/1. The stereographs of the full moon taken by Mr. Delarue show that our satellite deviates very considerably from the spherical form.
a. 1876. M. Collins, Pen Sketches (1879), II. 96–7. His [Borrow’s] vivid style seems to act on commonplace objects as the stereoscope on the stereograph; it gives them a solidness and reality which they did not previously possess.
2. An instrument for making projections or geometrical drawings of skulls or similar solid objects.
1877. Catal. Spec. Collect. Sci. Apparatus S. Kens. Mus. (ed. 3), 956. Craniograph, by M. Broca. Stereograph, by M. Broca.
1878. Bartley, trans. Topinard’s Anthrop., II. iii. 268. The stereograph … gives … all the visible details, as well as some inaccessible to the eye, and is applied to each of the five surfaces of the skull which it is useful to reproduce.
3. An apparatus for making embossed points in metal plates in a system of printing for the blind.
1896. Living Topics Mag. (N.Y.) Feb., 131. Mr. Wait … brought out in 1894 … the stereograph, by which they [the blind] can emboss metal plates for printing in embossed characters.
Hence Stereograph v., trans., to take a stereograph or stereoscopic photograph of.
1860. O. W. Holmes, Prof. Breakfast-t., viii. Having been photographed, and stereographed.
