Definitions for daguerreotypy
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
da•guerre•o•typedəˈgɛər əˌtaɪp, -i əˌtaɪp(n.; v.)-typed, -typ•ing.
(n.)an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine is developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Category: Photography
a picture made by this process.
Category: Photography
(v.t.)to photograph by this process.
Category: Photography
Origin of daguerreotype:
< F (1839), after L. J. M. Daguerre ; see -o -, -type
da•guerre′o•typ′y(n.)
Webster Dictionary
Daguerreotypy(noun)
the art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre
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