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darkroom



dark·room [ ˈdärk-ˌrüm]



darkroom   
noun
[ˈdärk-ˌrüm]

Definition of darkroom

: a room with no light or with a safelight for developing light-sensitive photographic materials



Recent Examples on the Web


//Officers approached the darkroom where Clarke was hiding, armed with their duty weapons.
— AZCentral.com, "Police shootings in Arizona," 22 Oct. 2019
//Serious devotees still operate home darkrooms, but those aren’t a public resource.
— al, "Lights out: Mobile has new darkroom for B&W film fans," 18 Oct. 2019
//Photos are converted into negatives and printed in black and white on silver gelatin paper using traditional photographic printing processes in the darkroom at Third Man Records headquarters and download higher resolution.
— Mitchell Peters, Billboard, "ACL Music Festival 2019: See the Best Artist & Fan Reactions on Social Media," 5 Oct. 2019
//The article did, however, estimate that there were fewer than 10 public schools in the city with operational darkrooms.
— Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, "Stranger Things Fans' Confusion Over What a Photography Darkroom Is Goes Viral," 28 July 2019
//Siddall said her interest in photography grew through her father, who had a darkroom before she was born.
— Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, "RB High grad part of youth photo display at Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park," 5 Sep. 2019
//Back in Chicago as a single mother in the early 1950s, Ms. Crane closed her darkroom for eight years and earned a living as a portrait photographer until her youngest child had entered preschool.
— Sam Roberts, New York Times, "Barbara Crane, 91, Dies; Photographer Found Abstract in the Ordinary," 15 Aug. 2019
//This was especially true for women of Rhoda’s generation and class, who had the spare time and means to buy designer furniture and practice photography in a home darkroom.
— Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, "A love letter to mom in 72 photos: Artist Susan Mogul’s latest, now on view," 20 Aug. 2019
//Among the spaces that remain in Caochangdi (at least for the time being) is Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, an exhibition space, archive, and public darkroom co-founded, in 2007, by RongRong, one of China’s leading photographers.
— Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, "Inside a Vanished Hub of Beijing’s Experimental-Art Scene," 25 July 2019


First Known Use of darkroom

1841, in the meaning defined above



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More Definitions fordarkroom

darkroom

noun

English Language Learners Definition of darkroom

: a room that is used for making photographs and that is lit with a special kind of red light

darkroom

noun
dark·​room | \ ˈdärk-ˌrüm , -ˌru̇m\

Kids Definition of darkroom

: a usually small dark room used in developing photographic plates and film