Röntgen ray Meaning, Definition & Usage

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1. (Phys.), a kind of ray generated in a very highly exhausted vacuum tube by the electrical discharge. It is capable of passing through many bodies opaque to light, and producing photographic and fluorescent effects by which means pictures showing the internal structure of opaque objects are made, called radiographs, or sciagraphs or X-ray photographs, radiograms, or X-rays . So called from the discoverer, W. C. Röntgen.