Definition of Autotype

1. Noun. Process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment.

Exact synonyms: Autotypy
Generic synonyms: Photography
Derivative terms: Autotypic

2. Noun. An exact copy or reproduction.
Exact synonyms: Facsimile
Generic synonyms: Copy
Derivative terms: Autotypic, Facsimile

Definition of Autotype

1. n. A facsimile.

Definition of Autotype

1. Noun. (dated countable) A copy or facsimile ¹

2. Noun. (dated countable) An early form of photograph produced using autotypy ¹

3. Noun. (uncountable computing) A function that completes the typing of a field using a prediction based upon the characters entered so far ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Autotype

1. a type of photographic process [n -S]

Medical Definition of Autotype

1. 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. Origin: Auto- + -type: cf. F. Autotype. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autotype

autotransplantation
autotriploid
autotroph
autotrophic
autotrophic organism
autotrophically
autotrophies
autotrophs
autotrophy
autotune
autotuned
autotuner
autotuners
autotunes
autotuning
autotype (current term)
autotyped
autotypes
autotypic
autotypies
autotypography
autotypy
autoubiquitination
autoubiquitylation
autovac
autovaccination
autovacs
autowinder
autowinders
autoworker

Literary usage of Autotype

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Numismatic Circularby Spink & Son by Spink & Son (1908)
"autotype Plates. Handbook of the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland, by Vol. ... autotype Plates, i » Map. Out oj print. i ю 50184 Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt, ..."

2. Aurangzíb by Stanley Lane Poole (1893)
"Thirty-three autotype Plates. 1892. Catalogue of Arabic Glass Weights in the British ... Nine autotype Plates. Printed by order of the Trustees. 1891. ..."

3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The mechanical printing processes from gelatine are also admirably represented by the autotype Company, as is that known as Woodbury-type. ..."

4. Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada by University of Toronto (1899)
"4- autotype Facsimiles of Three Mappemondes : 1, The Har- Lf/ian (or ... in the British Museum became thus accessible in autotype facsimile has the ..."

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