daguerreotype Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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

WordNet

Da*guerre"o*type noun
Etymology
From Daguerre the inventor + -type.
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. The process of taking such pictures.
Da*guerre"o*type transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Daguerreotyped ; present participle & verbal noun Daguerreotyping
Definitions
  1. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
  2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.

Webster 1913