daguerreotype

3 definitions found

daguerreotype - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Daguerreotype \Da*guerre"o*type\ (d[.a]*g[e^]r"[-o]*t[imac]p),
     n. [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.
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     2. The process of taking such pictures.
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  Daguerreotype \Da*guerre"o*type\ (d[.a]*g[e^]r"[-o]*t[imac]p),
     v. t. [imp. & p. p. Daguerreotyped (-t[imac]pt); p. pr. &
     vb. n. Daguerreotyping (-t[imac]`p[i^]ng).]
     1. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a
        picture.
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     2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate
        exactly. Daguerreotyper

daguerreotype - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  daguerreotype
      n 1: a photograph made by an early photographic process; the
           image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine
           and developed in mercury vapor