aristotype
Meanings
noun
- A high-symmetry crystallographic structure type that can be viewed as an idealized version of a lower-symmetry structure.
- A printing process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin, or (later) any similar process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin.
- A print made by such a process.
Word forms
Etymology
From aristo- + -type.
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