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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CALOTYPE

From Greek kalos beautiful + -type.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CALOTYPE

calotype  [ˈkæləʊˌtaɪp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CALOTYPE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Calotype is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CALOTYPE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

calotype

Calotype

Calotype or talbotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. The term calotype comes from the Greek καλός, "beautiful", and τύπος, "impression".

Definition of calotype in the English dictionary

The definition of calotype in the dictionary is an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite. Other definition of calotype is a photograph made by this process.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CALOTYPE


ambrotype
ˈæmbrəʊˌtaɪp
collotype
ˈkɒləʊˌtaɪp
cotype
ˈkəʊˌtaɪp
daguerreotype
dəˈɡɛrəʊˌtaɪp
electrotype
ɪˈlɛktrəʊˌtaɪp
ferrotype
ˈfɛrəʊˌtaɪp
genotype
ˈdʒɛnəʊˌtaɪp
haplotype
ˈhæpləʊˌtaɪp
heliotype
ˈhiːlɪəʊˌtaɪp
homotype
ˈhɒməʊˌtaɪp
Linotype
ˈlaɪnəʊˌtaɪp
logotype
ˈlɒɡəʊˌtaɪp
neotype
ˈniːəʊˌtaɪp
palaeotype
ˈpælɪəʊˌtaɪp
phenotype
ˈfiːnəʊˌtaɪp
photoelectrotype
ˌfəʊtəʊɪˈlɛktrəʊˌtaɪp
phototype
ˈfəʊtəʊˌtaɪp
platinotype
ˈplætɪnəʊˌtaɪp
serotype
ˈsɪərəʊˌtaɪp
stannotype
ˈstænəʊˌtaɪp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CALOTYPE

calorie-conscious
calorie-controlled diet
calorie-free
calories
calorific
calorific value
calorifically
calorification
calorifier
calorimeter
calorimetric
calorimetrical
calorimetrically
calorimetry
calorist
calorize
calory
calotte
calotypist
caloyer

WORDS THAT END LIKE CALOTYPE

allotype
autotype
biotype
cerotype
chromotype
cyanotype
ecotype
holotype
isotype
karyotype
lectotype
monotype
phonotype
prototype
somatotype
Stenotype
stereotype
talbotype
topotype
type
zootype

Synonyms and antonyms of calotype in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «calotype» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CALOTYPE

Find out the translation of calotype to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of calotype from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «calotype» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

碘化银纸照相法
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

calotipo
570 millions of speakers

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calotype
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

calotype
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

calotype
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

calotype
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

calotype
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্যালোটাইপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

calotype
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Calotype
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kalotypie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

calotype
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

calotype
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Calotype
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

calotype
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

calotype
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅलोटाइप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kalotip
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

calotipo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

calotype
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

calotype
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

calotype
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

καλοτυπία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

calotype
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

calotype
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

calotypi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of calotype

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CALOTYPE»

The term «calotype» is normally little used and occupies the 127.318 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CALOTYPE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «calotype» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «calotype» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about calotype

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CALOTYPE»

Discover the use of calotype in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to calotype and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective
22-50), and the calotype. Da- guerre was an architect and theatrical set painter and designer. This background led Daguerre and a partner to open a popular entertainment called the Diorama. Audiences witnessed performances of “living ...
Fred Kleiner, 2009
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Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography: A-I, index
The painter Gustave Le Gray (1820-1882) began experimenting with the daguerreotype as early as 1847 and the following year was using variants of Henry Talbot's calotype process. Within three years, he had produced a highly innovative ...
John Hannavy, 2008
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The History of Photography: An Overview
Burdens and Improvements: The Technical Process — 1850s The calotype process was clearly favored over that of the daguerreotype by early landscape photographers. The reasons were twofold. First, the daguerreotype required glass ...
Alma Davenport, 1991
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A Concise History of Photography
Great Britain Talbot's first licensee was the miniature painter Henry Collen, who opened a Calotype studio in London in August 1841. He took small portraits in about a minute, using them merely as a base for drawing or painting over.
Helmut Gernsheim, 1986
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The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography
This Fourth edition of the Focal Encyclopedia serves as the definitive reference for students and practitioners of photography worldwide, expanding on the award winning 3rd edition.
Michael R. Peres, 2014
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Popular Photography
This occurred to me as I visited exhibitions of early European photography in museums in three states: The Era of the French Calotype, at International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y., Sept. 17Nov.
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The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: From the ...
The calotype Talbot's photogenic drawing process,as introduced, was also impractical for portraiture even when improved lenses became available.In 1841, however, Talbotchangedhis formula touse silver iodide, whichwasmore sensitivethan ...
Michael R. Peres, 2014
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Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination
In the second set, from 1857-58, there were seventeen from calotype negatives, twenty-four from collodion, and four from waxed paper. The Photographic Album for the Year 1855 and the Photographic Album for the Year 1857 provide the best  ...
Grace Seiberling, 1986
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Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper ...
Leisurely negotiations beginning in April 1842 culminated in a licensing agreement signed in the spring of 1844. Claudet then began advertising his “ Talbotype (or Calotype) portraits” with characteristic showmanship (fig. 17). A portrait cost ...
Roger Taylor, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 2007
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Photogenic Manipulation: Containing Plain Instructions in ...
Containing Plain Instructions in the Theory and Practice of the Arts of Photography, Calotype, Cyanotype, Ferrotype, ... "The Calotype picture, like the Photographic one which we first described, is negative, that is to say, it has its lights and ...
George Thomas Fisher (Jun.), Francis Peabody, 1843

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CALOTYPE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term calotype is used in the context of the following news items.
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Historic England: Previously unseen photos provide a fascinating …
... identical to a calotype photograph taken before by Alfred Rosling, a timber merchant and one of England's earliest amateur photographers. «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
2
A photographic chronicle of Yorkshire
Thus, photographers were in great demand, using both the Daguerrotype and Calotype methods, but these were very time consuming and led ... «Yorkshire Post, Jul 15»
3
Art review: Photography – A Victorian Sensation
Fox Talbot's invention was the calotype. The image, invisible till developed, was recorded on a treated paper negative and was then printed on ... «Scotsman, Jun 15»
4
Historic Salt Prints and 'Bear Studies'
1853) by John Moyer Heathcote, only the calotype negative; seen in reverse tonal values it is ethereal. Charles Nègre's “Notre-Dame, Paris” (c. «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
5
How Scotland helped shape modern photography
Photography: A Victorian Sensation at the National Museum of Scotland The Ladder, salt print from a calotype negative: Plate XIV from Talbot s ... «Scotsman, Jun 15»
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William Henry Fox Talbot: A British Technological Pioneer
... separate paper as many times as he needed to. Talbot had developed the first photographic negative, an invention that he called a calotype. «TrustedReviews, Jun 15»
7
Little-seen archive casts new light on Victorians
We also have a whole album of photographs by the Edinburgh Calotype Club, which is said to be the world's first photographic society.”. «Scotsman, Jun 15»
8
Museum captures the Victorians' excitement at photography
Here, the images from the Edinburgh Calotype Society, the first known photographic society made up of wealthy Edinburgh lawyers. «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
9
Photography from the Victorian era
From the pin-sharp daguerreotype and the more textured calotype process of the early years, to the wet collodion method pioneered in 1851, ... «The Edinburgh Reporter, Jun 15»
10
Felice Beato's photos depicting life in 19th century Japan
Further variations, such as Henry Fox Talbot's calotype process which entered the world in 1841, helped it to flourish and paved the way for the ... «Daily Mail, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Calotype [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/calotype>. Apr 2024 ».
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