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Definition of Daguerreotype
1. Noun. A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor.
Definition of Daguerreotype
1. n. 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. v. t. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
Definition of Daguerreotype
1. [v -TYPED, -TYPING, -TYPES]
Medical Definition of Daguerreotype
1. 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. Origin: From Daguerre the inventor + -type. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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