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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 in 1930–35

Words nearby contact print

contact mine, contactor, contact paper, contact patch, contact potential, contact print, contact printer, contact printing, contact process, contact sheet, contact splint

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How to use contact print in a sentence

They took cover inside a print works to the north east of Paris, where they held a member of staff as a hostage.
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It also required that ads print a disclaimer if they digitally altered the models.
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Ney said McDonnell needs to “keep a stiff lip” and stay in close contact with family members.
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In “Sleigh Ride,” the narrator is painting a scene so perfect that it could be featured on an iconic Currier and Ives print.
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Scrooge is still with us, not just in print but embodied in the cold hearts and selfish calculations of misanthropes everywhere.
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This new nexus of print has grown up in the lifetime of four or five generations, and it is undergoing constant changes.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Before Ulm he nearly ruined Napoleon's combination by failing to get in contact with the enemy.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
In a niche in the mud wall was a cheap print of the Madonna, one candle just smouldering out before it.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
It is sometimes indented, with its convex side in contact with the periphery of the cell.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

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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