a photographic print of plans, technical drawings, etc, consisting of white lines on a blue background
2.
an original plan or prototype that influences subsequent design or practice
the Montessori method was the blueprint for education in the 1940s
verb
3. (transitive)
to make a blueprint of (a plan)
cyanotype in American English
(saiˈænəˌtaip)
noun
1.
a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background
2.
a print made by this process
Word origin
[1835–45; cyano-1 + -type]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: basic, communism, crosshead, ecumenical, serial-type is a suffix representing type (prototype), esp. in names of photographic processes (ferrotype). Other words that use the affix -type include: calotype, monotype, phototype, platinotype, stereotype