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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. accelerator, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. A person who or thing which accelerates something (in speed, rate, amount, or extent, or in time)....
3. acetate, n. View full entry 1788
...Chem. A salt or ester, or the anion, of acetic acid....
4. actinism, n. View full entry 1845
...The property by which light or other electromagnetic radiation causes chemical change, as in traditional photography and in photosynthesis. Also in extended use and in figurative contexts....
5. actinize, v. View full entry 1844
...trans. To chemically change (esp. a photographic film or plate) by means of exposure to light. Cf. actinic1, actinism1....
6. actinograph, n. View full entry 1840
...An instrument for recording variations in the intensity of solar radiation....
7. actinography, n. View full entry 1853
...An alternative name proposed for: photography. Obs....
8. actinometer, n. View full entry 1833
...Originally: an instrument for measuring the heating power of the sun's radiation. Later more widely: one for measuring the intensity of solar radiation (cf. actinograph1)....
9. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
10. acutance, n. View full entry 1952
...The sharpness of a photographic or printed image; a numerical measure of this....
11. additive, adj. and n. View full entry 1648
...Characterized by or involving addition; that is to be or can be added....
12. adiactinic, adj. View full entry 1845
...Of a substance: not diactinic, opaque to actinic light....
13. Adurol, n. View full entry 1898
...A photographic developer containing chlorohydroquinone, C6H5O2Cl....
14. advance, n. and adj. View full entry a1400
...The action of extolling or lauding something; ostentation, boasting. Cf. advancement2. Obs....
15. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
16. air-bell, n. View full entry 1782
...A vessel for containing air; spec.a diving bell;an open-bottomed bell-shaped glass vessel used with its open end downwards to contain a gas or to protect samples; a bell jar....
17. airbrush, v. View full entry 1912
...trans. To apply colour, paint, etc., to by means of an airbrush; (Photogr.) to retouch (a picture) or (with out) remove (something) from a picture by means...
18. albumen, n. View full entry 1599
...The white of an egg; egg white. Cf. sense 4....
19. albumenize, v. View full entry 1847
...trans.Biol. To convert into albumin. Obs....
20. albumenized, adj. View full entry 1840
...Coated or impregnated with albumen or (formerly in Photogr.) an albuminous solution. Now chiefly hist....
