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contact print

noun

, Photography.
  1. a photographic print made by placing a negative directly in contact with sensitized paper, with their emulsion surfaces facing, and exposing them to light.


contact print

noun

  1. a photographic print made by exposing the printing paper through a negative placed directly onto it
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of contact print1

First recorded in 1930–35

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