Definitions for calotype

calotype cal·o·type

Spelling: [kal-uh-tahyp]
IPA: /ˈkæl əˌtaɪp/

Calotype is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 348 anagrams from letters in calotype (acelopty).

Definitions for calotype

noun

  1. an early negative-positive photographic process, patented by William Henry Talbot in 1841, in which a paper negative is produced and then used to make a positive contact print in sunlight.
  2. a print made by this process.

Origin of calotype

1835-45; Greek kalo- (combining form of kalós beautiful) + -type

Examples for calotype

The notion of a "national reward" for the calotype scarcely requires a remark.

What price would some early edition of his works bear, 184 with his likeness in calotype fronting the title?

Curiously enough, though for very obvious reasons, the Daguerreotype seems to favour one method, the calotype the other.

calotype, a process of photography invented by Fox Talbot in 1840, by means of the action of light on nitrate of silver.

The calotype process, by which the images of the camera can be fixed upon paper, was invented by Mr. Talbot, in 1840.

Why not adopt and abide by the simplicity of the calotype process as given in a late Number?

At its base sat a beggar; while an artist, at a little distance, was sketching it with the calotype.

Three hours in the calotype and waxed-paper process, and half-an-hour sufficed for the collodion process!!

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