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heliotypy

heliotypy noun: a method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

Noun

heliotypy (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

Origin of heliotypy

From Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios) + Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).

Words formed from heliotypy

Questions about heliotypy

What does heliotypy mean?
Heliotypy means a method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
What part of speech is heliotypy?
Heliotypy is a noun.

Words near heliotypy in the dictionary

  1. heliotyped
  2. heliotypes
  3. heliotypic
  4. heliotyping
  5. heliotypography
  6. heliotypy
  7. heliox
  8. helioxanthin
  9. helioxerophyllous
  10. heliozelid
  11. heliozelids

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