Definitions for Daguerreotype
dəˈgɛər əˌtaɪp, -i əˌtaɪpda·guerreo·type

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. daguerreotypenoun

   a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. daguerreotypenoun

   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.

2. daguerreotypeverb

   To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).

3. Etymology: Named after French artist Louis Daguerre who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.

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1. daguerreotype

   A daguerreotype is an early type of photograph, developed by Louis Daguerre in the 19th century, which is made by exposing a silver-coated copper plate to iodine vapor, then to light, and finally to mercury vapor. The process resulted in a highly detailed and delicate image that was often enclosed in a glass-fronted case.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Daguerreotypenoun

   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. Daguerreotypenoun

   the process of taking such pictures

3. Daguerreotypeverb

   to produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture

4. Daguerreotypeverb

   to impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly

5. Etymology: [From Daguerre the inventor + -type.]

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1. Daguerreotype

   The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process, invented around 1837 by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. The physical daguerreotype itself is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate. The raw material for plates was called Sheffield plate, plating by fusion or cold-rolled cladding and was a standard hardware item produced by heating and rolling silver foil in contact with a copper support. The surface of a daguerreotype is like a mirror, with the image made directly on the silvered surface; it is very fragile and can be rubbed off with a finger, and the finished plate has to be angled so as to reflect some dark surface in order to view the image properly. Depending on the angle viewed and the color of the surface reflected into it, the image can change from a positive to a negative. The cases provided to house daguerreotypes have a cover lined with velvet or plush to provide a dark surface that reflects into the plate for viewing. Alternatively there were cases designed as frames to hang on a wall, while the smallest sizes of daguerreotypes could be mounted into lockets as had been done with miniature paintings.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Daguerreotype

   da-ger′o-tīp, n. a method of taking pictures on metal plates by the light of the sun: a photograph fixed on a plate of copper by a certain process.—adj. Daguer′rēan.—n. Daguerrē′otypy, the art of daguerreotyping. [Fr., from Louis Daguerre (1789-1851).]

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Daguerreotype

   a process named after its inventor, Louis Daguerre, a Frenchman, of producing pictures by means of the camera on a surface sensitive to light and shade, and interesting as the first step in photography.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Daguerreotype

   An early process of photography discovered by L. J. M. Daguerre.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Daguerreotype in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Daguerreotype in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Daguerreotype in a Sentence

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   “Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”-- from Circles and Arcs

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Daguerreotype
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Daguerreotype
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Daguerreotype
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Daguerreotype
7. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Daguerreotype
8. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=Daguerreotype