Thesaurus: lithography

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1. n. 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.
2. n. a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface
3. n. the act of making a lithographic print
4. 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.
5. The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasymaterial, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom.The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between greaseand water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adheringto wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. SeeLithographic limestone, under Lithographic.
6. n:100 n. a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface n. the act of making a lithographic print