3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Daguerreotype \Da*guerre"o*type\ (d[.a]*g[e^]r"[-o]*t[imac]p), n. [From Daguerre the inventor + -type.] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. The process of taking such pictures. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Daguerreotype \Da*guerre"o*type\ (d[.a]*g[e^]r"[-o]*t[imac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Daguerreotyped} (-t[imac]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Daguerreotyping} (-t[imac]`p[i^]ng).] 1. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture. [1913 Webster] 2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly. Daguerreotyper From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: daguerreotype n : a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
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