Definition of Contact print

1. Noun. A print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative.

Generic synonyms: Print

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contact Print

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contact hypersensitivity
contact illumination
contact induced spreading
contact inhibition
contact inhibition of growth
contact inhibition of movement
contact inhibition of phagocytosis
contact juggling
contact language
contact lens
contact lens solutions
contact lenses
contact metamorphism
contact point
contact print (current term)
contact rate
contact sensitivity
contact sites A
contact sites B
contact splint
contact sport
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contactable
contactant
contacted
contactee
contactees

Literary usage of Contact print

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

1. The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America (1917)
"If, however, you had been able from your small negative, or from a contact print from it, to select exactly the bit which, when enlarged, would make the ..."

2. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1907)
"There will be a difference in the gradation between a contact print and an ... The gradation of a contact print may be altered by varying the printing ..."

3. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1913)
"It would be idle to say that the detail in the enlargement is as fine as in the contact print. It isn't so fine, of course; but it is fine enough so that ..."

4. Photographic Surveying, Including the Elements of Descriptive Geometry and by E Deville, Édouard Gaston Daniel Deville, Canada Topographical Survey (1895)
"It must be admitted, that the best possible results are probably obtained by a contact print in platinum or carbon from an enlarged negative ; but at the ..."

5. Photographic Surveying, Including the Elements of Descriptive Geometry and by E Deville, Édouard Gaston Daniel Deville, Canada Topographical Survey (1895)
"It must be admitted, that the best possible results are probably obtained by a contact print in platinum or carbon from an enlarged negative ; but at the ..."

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