aristotype

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Definition of aristotype in English English dictionary

A printing process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin

A high-symmetry crystallographic structure type that can be viewed as an idealized version of a lower-symmetry structure

Orig

a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made

Hyphenation

a·ris·to·type