Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lithography"
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) 1.7 (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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