LITHOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lithography mean? 

• LITHOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun LITHOGRAPHY has 2 senses:

1. a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface

2. the act of making a lithographic print

  Familiarity information: LITHOGRAPHY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITHOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lithography" 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 "lithography"):

photolithography (a planographic printing process using plates made from a photographic image)

chromolithography (single- or multi-color lithography)

offset lithography (offset printing by lithography)

Derivation:

lithographer (a printmaker who uses lithography)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of making a lithographic print

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

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

Derivation:

lithographer (a printmaker who uses lithography)

 Context examples 

Lithography that is performed on a nanoscale.

(Nanolithography, NCI Thesaurus)