half-plate
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The price on the half-plate daguerreotype could go much higher than the estimate.
From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2017
I have here two half-plate films exposed at 8:30 A.M. to-day, one with five and one with six seconds' exposure, subject chiefly middle distance.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various
Had the effect depended upon a peculiar relation of the contiguous particles of matter only, then each half-plate, d and f, should have shown positive force on one surface and negative on the other.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
To-day, in Rome, it is easier to get a half-plate of fresh mushrooms from Noricum than to find such.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
At the back was a large unframed photograph of the size known as half-plate of the interior of some building.
From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert
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