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lithography |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lithography n 1: a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface 2: the act of making a lithographic print
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