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An engraving used to reproduce an illustration
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photoengraving
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Photoengraving is a process that uses a light-sensitive photoresist applied to the surface to be engraved to create a mask that shields some areas during a subsequent operation which etches, dissolves, or otherwise removes some or all of the material from ...
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n. 1 (context uncountable English) A process of transferring a photographic image onto a plate which is then etched and printed 2 (context countable English) A plate or reproduction made using this process vb. (present participle of photoengrave English)
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n. an engraving used to reproduce an illustration [syn: halftone , halftone engraving ]
Usage examples of photoengraving.
Perhaps it is dust, or graininess, or perhaps the dots produced by photoengraving processes used in newspaper reproduction.
You see, if I had a photoengraving plant of my own, I could do a good deal of outside jobbing as well, and the investment would pay ten per cent. But it takes money to make money.
The picture recorded in the receptor was a nuclear portrait in cross section, where sextillions of atoms performed the role of the dots in an ordinary halftone photoengraving.
So, each dot can easily be adjusted in size as required by the photoengraving, and there is no question that there is enough room on the head of a pin to put all of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica.