1. early photographic process: an early photographic process in which an image was produced on a light-sensitive silver or silver-coated plate and developed in mercury vapor
2. early photograph: a photograph produced by the daguerreotype process
transitive verb (past and past participleda·guerre·o·typed, present participleda·guerre·o·typ·ing, 3rd person present singularda·guerre·o·types)(past and past participleda·guer·ro·typed, present participleda·guer·ro·typ·ing, 3rd person present singularda·guer·ro·types)
Definition:
photograph somebody or something: to make a daguerreotype of something or somebody
[Mid-19th century. < French daguerréotype, after L. J. Daguerre]
