phototype

American  

[foh-tuh-tahyp] / ˈfoʊ təˌtaɪp /

noun

Printing.

1. a plate with a relief printing surface produced by photography.

2. any process for making such a plate.

3. a print made from it.

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phototype British  

/ ˌfəʊtəʊˈtɪpɪk, ˈfəʊtəʊˌtaɪp /

noun

1. 1. a printing plate produced by photography

   2. a print produced from such a plate

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verb

1. (tr) to reproduce (an illustration) using a phototype

Other Word Forms

• phototypic adjective
• phototypically adverb

Etymology

Origin of phototype

First recorded in 1855–60; photo- + -type

Example Sentences

To preserve anatomical accuracy, the finer results of both photography and of the phototype process have had to be sacrificed.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault

The plates are phototype reproductions from photographs of Patroclus, taken in action by Baldwin Coolidge.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault

What the same eminent scholar gives us now is a reproduction in phototype of "L'Exemplaire."

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive

With 16 full-page phototype reproductions of water-color drawings, and text by F. Hopkinson Smith, profusely illustrated with pen-and ink sketches.

From The Other Fellow by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

This beautiful quarto contains phototype plates of the original Icelandic vellums in the Hauks-b�k, the MS.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John