ETCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does etching mean? 

• ETCHING (noun)
  The noun ETCHING has 3 senses:

1. an impression made from an etched plate

2. an etched plate made with the use of acid

3. making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them

  Familiarity information: ETCHING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETCHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An impression made from an etched plate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("etching" is a kind of...):

engraving (a print made from an engraving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "etching"):

aquatint (an etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color)

Derivation:

etch (make an etching of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An etched plate made with the use of acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("etching" is a kind of...):

engraving (a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved)

Derivation:

etch (make an etching of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

engraving; etching

Hypernyms ("etching" is a kind of...):

printmaking (artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "etching"):

steel engraving (the act of engraving on a steel plate)

aquatint (a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color)

Derivation:

etch (make an etching of)

 Context examples 

Examples of this technique include etching, writing and printing on nanoscale surfaces.

(Nanolithography, NCI Thesaurus)

The chlorine-based ‘reactive ion’ etching process to create nanopillars causes the normally shiny surface of the titanium to turn black.

(Nanopillars help orthopaedic implants resist infection, SciDev.Net)

Phosphoric acid is used in dentistry and orthodontics as an etching solution, to clean and roughen the surfaces of teeth where dental appliances or fillings will be placed.

(Phosphoric acid, NCI Thesaurus)

The processing techniques, such as deposition, etching, and patterning, that are utilized to produce miniaturized structures and devices with feature sizes and resolution in the micron domain.

(Microfabrication, NCI Thesaurus)