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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)
- (dated, countable) A copy or facsimile.
- (dated, countable) An early form of photograph produced using autotypy.
- (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)
- (dated, transitive) To reproduce (a document) by autotype.