Definitions for collotype

collotype col·lo·type

Spelling: [kol-uh-tahyp]
IPA: /ˈkɒl əˌtaɪp/

Collotype is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in collotype (celloopty).

Definitions for collotype

noun

  1. any photomechanical process of printing from a plate coated with gelatin.
  2. the plate used for this.
  3. a print made from such a plate.

verb (used with object)

  1. to produce (a print) by collotype; albertype; artotype; heliotype.

Origin of collotype

1880-85; Greek kóll(a) glue + -o- + -type

Examples for collotype

With frontispiece in colour and thirty-five portraits in collotype.

collotype, kol′o-tīp, n. a photographic process much used for book illustrations and advertising purposes.

An author will naturally consider whether a photograph is to be reproduced by means of photogravure, collotype or half-tone.

The collotype process then became his hope and refuge, but that also was in its infancy, and not practised in England.

This discovery led to the invention of the Autotype, Woodburytype, collotype, and other methods of photo-mechanical printing.

As a general rule photo-micrographs are best reproduced by collotype.

This volume contains reproduction in colour of sixteen Jacobite pictures and seven portraits in collotype.

Four portraits in colour, twenty-five in collotype and several letters in facsimile.

The collotype plate is then exposed under the negative and washed in cold water until the yellow bichromate no longer comes away.

With thirty-two portraits in collotype and frontispiece in colour.

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