- (v.t.) To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
- (n.) The process of taking such pictures.
- (v.t.) To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
- (n.) An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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