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noun Photography.
a photographic print made by placing a negative directly in contact with sensitized paper, with their emulsion surfaces facing, and exposing them to light.
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Origin of contact print

First recorded in1930–35

Words nearby contact print

contact mine, contactor, contact paper, contact patch, contact potential, contact print, contact printer, contact printing, contact process, contact sheet, contact sport
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British Dictionary definitions for contact print

contact print
noun
a photographic print made by exposing the printing paper through a negative placed directly onto it
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