Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A positive photograph on glass copied from a negative; a photographic transparency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
photographic picture copied from thenegative onglass .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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This was done, greatly to their satisfaction, by exhibiting to them one and the same hyalotype, magnified by the magic lantern, so that the life-like countenance appeared to approach them from the opposite wall in the darkened room.
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins
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