单词 | halfplate |
释义 | > see alsoalso refers to : half-platen. > as lemmashalf-plate half-plate n. Photogr. (see plate n. 21); also attrib. ΚΠ 1877 Design & Work 3 451/1 Half-plate portrait lens. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 116 Half Plate, a watch in which the top pivot of the fourth wheel pinion is carried in a cock so as to allow of the use of a larger balance. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 56 Half plate paper, machine made paper of fine and soft texture used for woodcuts. 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 58 On your slide you require to get all the view on the half-plate negative. 1903 A. Watkins Photogr. (ed. 2) 13 Half-plate is the favourite amateur size. half-plate 21. Photography. A thin sheet of metal, glass, or other substance, coated with a light-sensitive film, on which single photographs are taken in larger or older types of camera; a photograph produced in this way. Also (with distinguishing word, as half-plate, quarter-plate, etc.): a standard size of photographic print or negative (see quot. 1907).dry plate: see dry adj. and adv. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > plates and films > [noun] > plate plate1840 photoplate1871 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 113/2 Thus prepared, the plate is next placed within a camera-obscura..and the delineation of the object is then effected. 1855 T. F. Hardwich Man. Photogr. Chem. 13 We are indebted to Sir John Herschel for the first use of glass plates to receive sensitive Photographic films. 1876 W. de W. Abney Instr. Photogr. (ed. 3) 61 With dry plates, and on some occasions with wet plates, there is another system..of calling forth the invisible image, and this..is known as the ‘alkaline development’. 1907 N.E.D. at Plate A whole-plate measures 81/ 2 × 61/ 2 inches; half-plate (English) 61/ 2 × 43/ 4 inches; (U.S.) 51/ 2 × 41/ 4 inches; quarter-plate, 41/ 4 × 31/ 4 inches. 1937 Discovery Oct. 299/1 The fixing of a photographic plate by desensitisation. 1970 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 81 43 Three plates taken between May 4 and 6, when the Earth was in the plane of the comet's orbit, show a beautifully straight tail about 10° long. 2003 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 345/2 He was issued a Speed Graphic, a camera that required the insertion and removal of plates. < see also as lemmas |
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