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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
daguerréotype
daguerréotype
See also: daguerreotype and daguerréotypé
French
Noun
daguerréotype m (plural daguerréotypes)
- (photography) daguerreotype (type of photograph)
- (photography) daguerreotypy (method of producing these photographs)
Verb
daguerréotype
- first-person singular present indicative of daguerréotyper
- third-person singular present indicative of daguerréotyper
- first-person singular present subjunctive of daguerréotyper
- third-person singular present subjunctive of daguerréotyper
- second-person singular imperative of daguerréotyper