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cyanotype — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • blueprint noun A detailed technical drawing used for building or design, originally printed white-on-blue.

Senses

cyanotype is used for these senses in English:

  • blueprint A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
  • cyanotype (countable) A photographic print produced by means of this process.

blueprint — full definition

  1. noun A detailed technical drawing used for building or design, originally printed white-on-blue.
  2. noun A detailed plan for achieving something, whether literal or figurative.
  3. verb To plan something out in careful detail.

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