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The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.

Art or process of decorating pottery with photographically prepared designs. -- Pho`to*ce*ram"ic (#), a.

ch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.

Art or process of printing colored photographs.

A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light.

The art or process of reproducing colors by photography.

(Astron.) An instrument for the photographic recording of star transits.

A photograph. [Obsoles.]

See Photography. [Obsoles.]

A photograph. [R.]

A method of surveying or map making by photography, used also in determining the height and motions of clouds, sea waves, and the like.

A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun.

A double-lens instrument for measuring slight variations of the sun's diameter by photography, utilizing the common chord of two overlapping images.

A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.

Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.

An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph.

A nephoscope registering by photography, commonly consisting of a pair of cameras used simultaneously.

A printing surface in relief, obtained by photographic means and subsequent manipulations. Knight.

A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition.

raphy by means of light, as by the heliograph or the photophone. Also, less properly, telephotography. -- Pho`to*tel"e*graph (#), n. --Pho`to*tel`e*graph"ic (#), a.