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LITHOGRAPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making a lithographic print
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lithography" is a kind of...):
printmaking (artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens)
Derivation:
lithographer (a printmaker who uses lithography)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("lithography" 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 "lithography"):
photolithography (a planographic printing process using plates made from a photographic image)
chromolithography (single- or multi-color lithography)
offset lithography (offset printing by lithography)
Derivation:
lithographer (a printmaker who uses lithography)
