Definition of "daguerreotype" in English

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. (obsolete, figurative) A faithful or exact representation or description.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).

2. (transitive, obsolete, figurative) To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.