contact print

1. 1.

   a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative

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Questions about contact print

What does contact print mean?

contact print means "a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative".

Is contact print a common word?

contact print is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.