autotype

[ aw-tuh-tahyp ]

/ ˈɔ təˌtaɪp /

noun

Photography.

a process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment.
a print made by this process.

Nearby words

autotransplantation, autotroph, autotrophic, autotruck, autotune, autotype, autovaccination, autowinder, autoworker, autoxidation, autoxidation-reduction

Origin of autotype

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

Related formsau·to·typ·ic

[aw-tuh-tip-ik] /ˌɔ təˈtɪp ɪk/, adjectiveau·to·typ·y

[aw-tuh-tahy-pee] /ˈɔ təˌtaɪ pi/, noun

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Examples from the Web for autotype

Some are in brown, some in blue, reproduced by the Autotype Company.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler|Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Our two woodcuts showing the tracery are copied from that work, but the autotype plate is from a photograph by Duschek.
Roumania Past and Present|James Samuelson
The Autotype Company, of London, manufacture a special "transparency" tissue.
Photogravure|Henry R. Blaney
He also discovered the direct method of printing by the autotype process.
Noteworthy Families (Modern Science)|Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster

Some are easily accessible in Gerli, Chamberlaine, and the autotype reproductions.
Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3|John Addington Symonds

British Dictionary definitions for autotype

autotype

/ (ˈɔːtəˌtaɪp) /

noun

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

an exact copy of a manuscript, etc; facsimile

Derived Formsautotypic (ˌɔːtəˈtɪpɪk), adjectiveautotypy, noun

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