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Webster 1913 Edition


Autotype

Au′to-type

,
Noun.
[
Auto-
+
-type
: cf. F.
autotype
.]
1.
A facsimile.
2.
A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

Definition 2024


autotype

autotype

English

Noun

autotype (countable and uncountable, plural autotypes)

  1. (dated, countable) A copy or facsimile.
  2. (dated, countable) An early form of photograph produced using autotypy.
  3. (uncountable, computing) A function that completes the typing of a field using a prediction based upon the characters entered so far.

Verb

autotype (third-person singular simple present autotypes, present participle autotyping, simple past and past participle autotyped)

  1. (dated, transitive) To reproduce (a document) by autotype.