Definition of daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes
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What does daguerreotypes mean?
Wiktionary 
- daguerreotypes (Noun)
Plural of daguerreotype.
Part of speech
🔤- daguerreotypes, verb, present, 3rd person singular of daguerreotype (infinitive).
- daguerreotypes, noun, plural of daguerreotype.
WordNet
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| daguerreotype - 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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Wiktionary
- daguerreotype (Noun)
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. - daguerreotype (Verb)
To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype of.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- daguerreotype (n.)
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. - daguerreotype (n.)
The process of taking such pictures. - daguerreotype (v. t.)
To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture. - daguerreotype (v. t.)
To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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).]
Part of speech
🔤- daguerreotype, verb, present, 1st person singular of daguerreotype (infinitive).
- daguerreotype, verb (infinitive).
- daguerreotype, noun, singular of daguerreotypes.
