daguerreotype

da-guer-reo-type · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    An early photographic process invented in 1839, producing an image on a silver-coated copper plate.

  2. 2.

    A photograph produced using this process.

Forms

plural: daguerreotypes

Related words

See also: ambrotype, photograph, tintype
Synonyms: image, photograph

Etymology

From French, named after Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre (1787-1851), the French artist and inventor who developed the process.