X-ray machine
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈɛksˌreɪ məˈʃin/
- Specialized
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máquina de rayos X
- The hospital installed a new X-ray machine to improve the quality of its medical imaging.
- airport X-ray machine
- portable X-ray machine
- medical X-ray machine
And it had all these buckets of water and they put me on, put me on this X-ray machine because I was wondering what the water was for.
- And it had all these buckets of water and they put me on, put me on this X-ray machine because I was wondering what the water was for.
Examples
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Maybe there's something wrong with the X-ray machine.
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So they made an X-ray machine with double the X-ray power of anything else comparable in the world at the time.
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The doctor sets her in a chair, turns the x-ray machine on... then goes to check on another patient down the hall.
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"I was nervous going through the x-ray machine at the airport," my wife told our friends and me.
Fiction book (1994) -
My doctor has an x-ray machine, so I know I can have those done in his office.
Blog text (3) -
Let's see what the X-ray machine shows.
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Did you know that most states require x-ray machines to be tested daily?
Blog text (29) -
Walker sees an X-ray machine; he steps across to it.
Fiction book (1998) -
Moore stands waiting for his case of tools to come through the X-ray machine.
Fiction book (2001) -
The initial focus of the IHS radiation protection program was to identify problems with the x-ray machine itself.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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3.0
A machine that makes detailed pictures of the inside of the body using X-ray images from different angles
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8.3
A machine that uses X-rays and a computer to make thin, detailed images inside the body
A machine that shows live X-ray images on a screen
A machine that takes X-ray pictures of blood vessels
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a device that produces X rays' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'X-ray' (the radiation used for imaging) with 'machine' (a device). This noun+noun/attributive composition is a common, productive pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
X-ray machine comes from the name X-ray, where the 'X' showed these rays were first thought to be 'unknown', and machine means a device that makes them. These devices send invisible X-ray rays through objects or bodies so people can 'see inside', which is why the name means a machine that makes X rays for imaging.