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A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.

by light, a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink. The albertype, phototype, and heliotype are collotypes.

A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.

To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.

One who takes daguerreotypes.

A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.

A print made from two half-tone plates made from the same negative, but etched differently.

A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed. Some regarded him [Klopstock] as an ectype of the ancient prophets. Eng. Cyc. .

Same as Electrotype.

To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n.

One who electrotypes.

A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.

otographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.

A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or bru…

A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.

See Ivorytype.

Same as Monoclinic.

That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc. Owen.

A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency. R. Hunt.

print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype. Knight.