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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; such a photograph.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The process of making such photographs.
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noun
A faithful or exact representation or description.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, obsolete
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verb
To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
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verb
To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.
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Usage: figuratively, obsolete, transitive
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noun
a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic
History
From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.
Across languages
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