autotype

American  

[aw-tuh-tahyp] / ˈɔ təˌtaɪp /

noun

1. facsimile.

2. Photography.

   1. a process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment.

   2. a print made by this process.

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autotype British  

/ ˈɔːtəˌtaɪp /

noun

1. a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment

2. an exact copy of a manuscript, etc; facsimile

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Other Word Forms

• autotypy
  noun
• autotypic
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of autotype

First recorded in 1850–55; auto- ¹ + type

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

autotype

He also discovered the direct method of printing by the autotype process.

From Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Sir Francis Galton

Had a great deal of trouble this month about reproductions of drawings in autotype.

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

One of Lettice's favorite possessions, a large autotype of the Sistine Madonna, hung on the wall fronting her writing-table, so that she could see it in the pauses of her work.

From Name and Fame A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

It should be stated, however, that Mr. E. Maunde Thompson, who, edits the autotype edition, believes that the hand changed at the beginning of St. Luke, and altered again at 1 Cor. x.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Casts are first taken from the coins, in white plaster; these are photographed, and the photograph printed by the autotype process.

From Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 by John Ruskin

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