SILKSCREEN

silkscreen, silk screen print, serigraph

(noun) a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil

silkscreen

(verb) print by silkscreen

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

silkscreen (plural silkscreens)

A sheet of material (originally silk but now synthetic) with areas that are porous to ink and others that are non-porous to allow printing of images, such as on T-shirts.

Verb

silkscreen (third-person singular simple present silkscreens, present participle silkscreening, simple past and past participle silkscreened)

To use a silkscreen to apply an image.

Source: Wiktionary



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