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A method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface
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lithography
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface the act of making a lithographic print
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lithography \Li*thog"ra*phy\, n. [Cf. F. lithographie.] 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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A delicate process of lithography brings out the richness of the bird's colouring on Coalport's finest bone china. ▪ As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts, lithography had not been in use for even a decade. ▪ ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1813, from German Lithographie (c.1804), coined from Greek lithos "stone" (see litho- ) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy ). The original printing surfaces were of stone. Process invented 1796 by Alois Senefelder of Munich (1771-1833). Hence, lithograph ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The process of printing a lithograph on a hard, flat surface; originally the printing surface was a flat piece of stone that was etched with acid to form a surface that would selectively transfer ink to the paper; the stone has now been replaced, in ...
Wikipedia
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Lithography is a method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone ( lithographic limestone ) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by German author and actor Alois Senefelder ...
Usage examples of lithography.
She learned to properly stretch and prime a canvas, to ink a lithography stone.
Litho forges by lithography, a printing process using stone developed two centuries ago by Aloys Senefelder, a mediocre playwright wanting to facsimile his plays on the cheap.
Breakthroughs in X-ray lithography, using giant particle accelerators called synchrotrons, eventually made possible the imprinting of one billion circuits on a chip, with features as small as one-thousandth the width of a human hair.
He also learned the machinist and lithography trades, yet never gave up on his dream of practicing medicine.
She had laid at his feet the printing presses and lithography cameras and delivery vans that allowed him to fight, if not a genuine war, then a tolerable substitute.
Offset Lithography, which it the newest and most flexible method of production printing.
November 15th, Joseph Hullmandle, whose inventions and improvements connected with lithography, and tinted lithographic printing, contributed so much to the perfection of that branch of artistic skill.
Breakthroughs in X-ray lithography, using giant particle accelerators called synchrotrons, eventually made possible the imprinting of one billion circuits on a chip, with features as small as one-thousandth the width of a human hair.
Ripper letters written with the waxy-soft crayonlike ground used in lithography.