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DAGUERREOTYPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does daguerreotype mean?
• DAGUERREOTYPE (noun)
The noun DAGUERREOTYPE has 1 sense:
1. a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
Familiarity information: DAGUERREOTYPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("daguerreotype" is a kind of...):
exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)
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