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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 vaporplay

  Familiarity information: DAGUERREOTYPE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DAGUERREOTYPE (noun)


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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