daguerreotype

Etymology
From. who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.

Noun

 * 1) An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors; such a photograph.
 * 2) The process of making such photographs.
 * 3)  A faithful or exact representation or description.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Belarusian: дагераты́п
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: daguerrotypie
 * Danish: daguerreotypi
 * Esperanto: dagerotipio
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: dagherrotipo
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: dagerotyp
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
 * 2)  To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 用達蓋爾銀版法拍攝, 用銀版攝影法拍攝
 * Finnish: ottaa daguerrotypia
 * French:
 * Polish: dagerotypować