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DAGUERREOTYPE

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

• DAGUERREOTYPE (noun)

Sense 1

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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 (a picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material)

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