Dictionary Entry
lithography
lithography is a 11-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 23 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 23 · Words With Friends 23 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
the act of making a lithographic print
- 3noun
a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface
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