photography

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The art or process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces.
2. n. The art, practice, or occupation of taking and printing photographs.
3. n. A body of photographs.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The art of producing images of objects by an application of the chemical change produced in certain substances, as silver chlorid, bromide, or iodide, by the action of light, or more generally of radiant energy. ; . The rays which are in general most active in this way are those of the upper part of the spectrum, as the blue, violet, and ultra-violet rays. The red and yellow rays produce a much less marked effect on an ordinary sensitive plate; but it has been found possible to prepare a special gelatinobromide plate which is highly sensitive even to the less refrangible rays, as those in the infra-red region of the spectrum. (See spectrum.) Photography rests on the fact that silver nitrate and various other chemicals are decomposed by certain solar rays and reduced, becoming dark or black, or in other ways affected, according to the intensity and amount of actinic rays received on them. The process consists

Wiktionary

1. n. The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
2. n. The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.
2. n. The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies
2. n. the act of taking and printing photographs
3. n. the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces