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Photography

//fəˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart. uncountable, usually

    "go on a photography course"

  2. 2
    the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies wordnet
  3. 3
    The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs. uncountable, usually
  4. 4
    the act of taking and printing photographs wordnet
  5. 5
    the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces wordnet

Etymology

From French photographie. By surface analysis, photo- + -graphy, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From φῶς (phôs, “of light”), and γράφω (gráphō, “write, draw”).

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