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 da·guerre·o·type /dəˈgɛroˌtaɪp, rə ||dəˈgɛrioˌtaɪp/
 銀板照相法(vi.)(vt.)銀板照相

 Da·guerre·o·type n.
 1. An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.
 2. The process of taking such pictures.

 Da·guerre·o·type v. t. [imp. & p. p. Daguerreotyped p. pr. & vb. n. Daguerreotyping ]
 1. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
 2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
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 daguerreotype
      n : a photograph made by an early photographic process; the
          image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine
          and developed in mercury vapor