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PHOTOGRAVURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Using photography to produce a plate for printing
Synonyms:
photogravure; rotogravure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("photogravure" is a kind of...):
gravure (the act of intaglio printing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An intaglio print produced by gravure
Synonyms:
gravure; heliogravure; photogravure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("photogravure" is a kind of...):
print (a picture or design printed from an engraving)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("photogravure" is a kind of...):
gravure; intaglio; intaglio printing (a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photogravure"):
rotogravure (printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press)
