COLLOTYPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collotype mean? 

• COLLOTYPE (noun)
  The noun COLLOTYPE has 1 sense:

1. a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors

  Familiarity information: COLLOTYPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLOTYPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

collotype; collotype printing; photogelatin process

Hypernyms ("collotype" 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 "collotype"):

hectograph; heliotype (duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy)