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   X-ray

   /ˈeksˌrā/

   

   noun

   • 1. an electromagnetic wave of high energy and very short wavelength, which is able to pass through many materials opaque to light.
   • ▪ denoting an apparent or supposed faculty for seeing beyond an outward form: informal "you didn't need X-ray eyes to know what was going on"
   • 2. a photographic or digital image of the internal composition of something, especially a part of the body, produced by X-rays being passed through it and being absorbed to different degrees by different materials: "the fracture was clearly visible on the X-ray"
   • ▪ an act of photographing someone with an X-ray: "he will have an X-ray today"
   • 3. a code word representing the letter X, used in radio communication.

   verb

   • 1. photograph or examine with X-rays: "luggage bound for the hold is X-rayed"

   Word Origin translation of German X-Strahlen (plural), from X- (because, when discovered in 1895, the nature of the rays was unknown) + Strahl ‘ray’.

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • X

     8

   • -

   • R

     1

   • A

     1

   • Y

     4

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