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    COLLOTYPE PRINTING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colorsplay

    Synonyms:

    collotype; collotype printing; photogelatin process

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("collotype printing" is a kind of...):

    planographic printing; planography (the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent))

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collotype printing"):

    hectograph; heliotype (duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy)

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