aerogram

From aero- +‎ -gram.

aerogram (plural aerograms)

1. (dated) A wireless message.
   • 1890, “Our New Satellite”, in English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the Mechanic", "Scientific Opinion," and the "British and Foreign Mechanic.", volume 50, E. J. Kibblewhite, page 499:

     An aërogram to the Examiner yesterday from Quito announced the success of the second attempt, and details of the achievement were at once secured.

2. (dated, rare) A telegram whose transmission included at least one segment sent via airplane.
   • 1919, The Electrical Review‎^[2], volume 84, H. Alabaster, Gatehouse & Company, page 538:

     Mr. Holt Thomas gave some details of a projected scheme of communication which combined the telephone or telegraph with the aeroplane. Messages sent by the system would be described as aerograms.

4. A thin piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter and serving as its own envelope for transit via airmail.
5. (medicine, rare) A pneumogram.

   Synonym: airgram

   • 1935, William Alexander Newman Dorland, E. C. Miller, Illustrated medical dictionary‎^[3], 17th edition, page 53:

     aerogram 1. A roentgenogram of an organ afer it has been injected with air; also called pneumogram.

Borrowed from English aerogram.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛː.roːˈɣrɑm/

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• Hyphenation: ae‧ro‧gram

aerogram n (plural aerogramen)

1. aerogram (a thin piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter and serving as its own envelope for transit via airmail)

   Synonym: luchtpostblad

• → Indonesian: aérogram

From Dutch aerogram, from English aerogram.

• IPA^(key): [aeˈroɡram]
• Hyphenation: aé‧ro‧gram

aérogram (plural aerogram-aerogram)

1. aerogram (a thin piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter and serving as its own envelope for transit via airmail)

• “aerogram” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From aero- +‎ -gram. First attested in 1902.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /a.ɛˈrɔ.ɡram/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡram
• Syllabification: a‧e‧ro‧gram

aerogram m inan

1. aerogram (a thin piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter and serving as its own envelope for transit via airmail)

• aerogram in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego