Căl'o-tȳpe, n.

n. [Gr. καλός, beautiful, and τύπος, stamp, type.] (Photog.) A method of taking photographic pictures, in which, through the action of nitrate of silver on prepared paper, the images of the camera-obscura are fixed on the paper, in the same manner as on the silvered plates employed in taking daguerreotype pictures;—also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox Talbot. Nichol.