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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. Noun. An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daguerreotype
Literary usage of Daguerreotype
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"We had taken with us a daguerreotype apparatus, of which but one specimen had
ever before appeared in Yucatan. Great improvements had been since made in the ..."
2. Scientific Memoirs, Being Experimental Contributions to a Knowledge of by John William Draper (1878)
"CONTENTS:—Mercury exists all over a daguerreotype surface.— There is no superposition
of the parts.— The shadows have metallic mercury ; the lights silver ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1840)
"Through this new method the daguerreotype is rendered more extensively available
for scientific uses. Every object which is discernible to the eye with ..."
4. The Dictionary of Photography for the Amateur and Professional Photographer by Edward John Wall (1902)
"daguerreotype. An early process for obtaining a camera picture; discovered by
Daguerre. A sensitive surface of silver iodide and bromide was formed by ..."
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