dry plate
noun
a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
Metallurgy.
tin plate having patches of dull finish.
Origin of dry plate
First recorded in 1855–60
Words nearby dry plate
dry mop,
dry mounting,
dry nurse,
dry offset,
dry out,
dry plate,
dry pleurisy,
dry point,
dry puddling,
dry rale,
dry riser
Example sentences from the Web for dry plate
The recent advances in dry-plate photography have vastly increased our powers of dealing with this subject.
All the latest novelties in connection with the improved Dry-plate Processes furnished at the shortest notice.
The Art and Practice of Silver Printing |H. P. RobinsonI have known a man find that determining factor in a dry-plate factory, and another in writing a history of the Manor.
Tono Bungay |H. G. WellsThe photographic apparatus was particularly bulky, for neither the dry-plate nor film had yet been invented.
The Romance of the Colorado River |Frederick S. Dellenbaugh