dry plate
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English
Noun
dry plate (plural dry plates)
- (photography) A glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dry plate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)