Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A photographic process in which from an ordinary negative is made a positive of such character that from it a direct impression in ink can be obtained by means of a printing-press.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A method of
transferring pictures fromphotographic negatives to hardenedgelatin plates from whichimpressions are produced on paper as bylithography .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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