Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A photographic process in which from an ordinary negative is made a positive of such character that from it a direct impression in ink can be obtained by means of a printing-press.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

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  • noun A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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