heliotypy
English edit
Etymology edit
Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios) + Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos)
Noun edit
heliotypy (uncountable)
- A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
Derived terms edit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “heliotypy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)