Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brass or bronze cast plate having numerous narrow slots, used as a pulp-strainer in a pulp-screen. See
screen , 2 .
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Examples
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Autochrome is an additive color 'screen-plate' process: the medium contains a glass plate, overlaying random mosaic of microscopic grains of potato starch, with lampblack filling the space between grains, and an impermeable black-and-white, panchromatic silver halide emulsion.
Museum Blogs 2010
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Autochrome is an additive color 'screen-plate' process: the medium contains a glass plate, overlaying random mosaic of microscopic grains of potato starch, with lampblack filling the space between grains, and an impermeable black-and-white, panchromatic silver halide emulsion.
Museum Blogs 2010
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