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Daguerreotype
Da-guerre′o-type
(dȧ-gĕr′ō̍-tīp)
, Noun.
[From
Daguerre
the inventor + -type
.] 1.
An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.
2.
The process of taking such pictures.
Da-guerre′o-type
(dȧ-gĕr′ō̍-tīp)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Daguerreotyped
(-tīpt)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Daguerreotyping
(-tīˊpĭng)
.] 1.
To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
Definition 2024
daguerreotype
daguerreotype
See also: daguerréotype and daguerréotypé
English
Noun
daguerreotype (plural daguerreotypes)
- An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors.
Translations
type of photograph
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Verb
daguerreotype (third-person singular simple present daguerreotypes, present participle daguerreotyping, simple past and past participle daguerreotyped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
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