Daguerreotype

Quick meaning: Daguerreotype is a noun meaning The process of making such photographs.

Meaning

The process of making such photographs.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
2. (transitive, obsolete, figurative) To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.
3. 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; such a photograph.
4. (obsolete, figurative) A faithful or exact representation or description.

Example Sentences

[H]e scanned my countenance with a pair of fierce, blood-shot eyes that I knew would daguerreotype my appearance indellibly^([sic]) and faithfully upon his mind.

What was most admired was the facade of the great and ancient Gothic church of St. Mary,—which was reflected with such exactness that it appeared to be a daguerreotype design; so that all the lines and contours of the innumerable ornaments which cover this facade, were distinguished with ease.

Word Forms

• daguerreotypes
• daguerreotyping
• daguerreotyped

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Related dictionary entries include photogalvanography, photogene, photoglottography, grain, gypsography, shadowgram.

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