Definition of Solarization

1. Noun. Exposure to the rays of the sun.

Exact synonyms: Solarisation
Generic synonyms: Exposure
Derivative terms: Solarise, Solarize

Definition of Solarization

1. n. Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.

Definition of Solarization

1. Noun. (photography) Whole or partial reversal of tone in a negative or photographic print, such that dark areas appear light or vice versa. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Solarization

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Solarization

1. Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Solarization

solaria
solarimeter
solarimeters
solarisation
solarisations
solarise
solarised
solarises
solarising
solarism
solarisms
solarist
solarists
solarium
solariums
solarization
solarizations
solarize
solarized
solarizes
solarizing
solars
solartype
solary
solas
solasonine
solastalgia
solastalgias
solasulfone
solate

Literary usage of Solarization

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Dry Plates: Or, Emulsion Photography by Josef Maria Eder (1881)
"Solarization is the effect produced in a plate which has been exposed for a ... No solarization is apparent in a plate expos'/J for a short time. ..."

2. Technology of Cellulose Esters: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Edward Chauncey Worden (1921)
"Halation and Solarization. The use of collodion varnishes and lacquers to prevent halation (local over-exposure) and solar- ization (reversal of the image) ..."

3. A manual of photographic chemistry, including the practice of the collodion by Thomas Frederick Hardwich (1861)
"Solarization of Negatives.—Over-action of light may produce either grey or red ... In Bed solarization the plates develope rapidly, and often give a fair ..."

4. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1896)
"This explains what usually has been ascribed to purely chemical causes, the solarization of the dry-plate. Where a portion of the plate has been very much ..."

5. The Encyclopædic Dictionary of Photography: Containing Over 2,000 References by Walter E. Woodbury (1896)
"Solarization.—A peculiar effect produced by long exposure of a photographic ... The phenomenon of solarization has been found to be of a recurrent character ..."

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