Etymograph

English

femtophotography

From femto- + photography, from the ~100-femtosecond-long pulses of light used.

Formed from femto- + photography

Proto-Germanic *fimftehun ‘fifteen’

Old Norse fimmtán ‘fifteen’

Danish femten ‘fifteen’

English femto-

French photographie

English photography

Today it means

noun A method of photography using sub-picosecond pulses of light (usually around 10⁻¹³ seconds, or 100 femtoseconds, long) to illuminate the subject of the photograph, allowing the propagation of the light pulse to be viewed directly.

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Etymograph / femtophotography