LITHOGRAPHY

lithography

(noun) the act of making a lithographic print

lithography

(noun) a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

lithography (countable and uncountable, plural lithographies)

The process of printing an image by drawing the image with a water-repellent material onto a hard, flat surface (typically metal), then copying the surface by applying water and ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it. [from 1813]

Hypernym: planography

Hyponyms: offset printing, photolithography

Source: Wiktionary


Li*thog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Cf. F. lithographie.]

Definition: The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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