autochrome [aw-tuh-krohm] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun Photography. a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of autochrome First recorded in 1905–10; auto-1 + -chrome Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for autochrome Historical Examples of autochrome
“And so that is the way these autochrome plates we have here were made,” concluded the scientist.
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