aristotype

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

aristotype aristotypes

Etymology

From aristo- + -type.

Related words

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