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n. [ Gr. 'a`mbrotos immortal + -type. ] (Photog.) A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; of corresponding form; 'anti` against + &unr_; type, figure. See Type. ] That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. archetypum, Gr. 'arche`typon, fr. 'arche`typos stamped first and as model; 'arche = 'archi + ty`pos stamp, figure, pattern, ty`ptein to strike: cf. F. archétype. See Arch-, pref. ] 1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Coinage) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; best + -type. ] (Photog.) Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Art + type. ] A kind of autotype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + -type: cf. F. autotype. ] 1. A facsimile. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a group of organisms sharing the same genotype. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the genotype shared by a biotype{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. kalo`s beautiful + ty`pos type. ] (Photog.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; wax + -type. ] A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Chemical + -type. ] (Engraving) One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; color + &unr_; type. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Photog.) A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The process by which such picture is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; color + -type. ] 1. A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A photographic picture in the natural colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chryso`s gold + -type. ] 1. A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 2process, invented by Sir J.Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; glue + -type. ] A photomechanical print made directly from a hardened film of gelatin or other colloid; also, the process of making such prints. According to one method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink. The albertype, phototype, and heliotype are collotypes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cyanide + -type. ] A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Daguerre the inventor + -type. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The process of taking such pictures. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Daguerreotyped p. pr. & vb. n. Daguerreotyping ] 1. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.

{ } n. One who takes daguerreotypes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; transparent + -type. ] (Photog.) A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. duo two + type. ] (Photoengraving) A print made from two half-tone plates made from the same negative, but etched differently. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. ectype. See Ectypal. ] 1. (Classical Archæol.) (a) A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence: (b) A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some regarded him [ Klopstock ] as an ectype of the ancient prophets. Eng. Cyc. . [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Electrotype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Electro- + -type. ] A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action of an electrical current upon a plate of metal and a wax mold suspended in an acid bath and connected with opposite poles of the battery. It is backed up with a solid filling of type metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Electrotyped p. pr. & vb. n. Electrotyping ] To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who electrotypes. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. ferrum iron + -type. ] A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Genetics) A group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Genetics) The genetic constitution of an organism, specifying the particular alleles at defined loci in the genome; -- used with respect to one gene, a specific group of genes, or the entire set of genes within the organism. Contrasted with phenotype.
Syn. -- genetic constitution. [ WordNet 1.5 + PJC ]

n. [ Gr. gra`fein to write + -type. ] (Engraving) A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Helio- + -type. ] A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ivorytype. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hemi- + Gr. &unr_; straight + -type. ] Same as Monoclinic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Homo- + -type. ] (Biol.) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc. Owen.

n. [ Gr. "y`alos glass + -type.] A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency. R. Hunt.

n. (Photog.) A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Line; Type. ] (Print.) (a) A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing the keys of a keyboard like one on a typewriter, the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the entire line, or stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic. (b) The slug produced by the machine, or matter composed in such lines. -- Lin"o*typ`ist n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. 1. An etched stone surface for printing, having the design in relief; also, the process of printing from such a surface, or that which is printed from it. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A machine, with a keyboard like that of a typewriter, for making a lithographic transfer sheet. It produces a perforated strip of paper which controls the printing. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lithotyped p. pr. & vb. n. Lithotyping ] To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. See Lithotypy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. lo`gos word + -type. ] (Print.) A single type, containing two or more letters; as, æ, \œ, Æ, fi, fl, ffl, etc.; -- called also ligature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Melanotype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. me`las, me`lanos, black + -type. ] (Photog.) A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture. [ Written also melainotype. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Photog.) A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Meso- + -type: cf. F. mésotype. ] (Min.) An old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. [ Mono- + -type. ] 1. (Biol.) The only representative of its group, as a single species constituting a genus. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A print (but one impression can be taken) made by painting on metal and then transferring the painting to paper by pressure; also, the process of making such prints. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A kind of keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } a. [ Mono- + -type: cf. F. monotype. ] (Biol.) Having but one type; containing but one representative; as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -type. ] (Zool.) The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell. [ 1913 Webster ]