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PHOTOPLATEMAKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does photoplatemaking mean?
• PHOTOPLATEMAKING (noun)
The noun PHOTOPLATEMAKING has 1 sense:
1. the process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods
Familiarity information: PHOTOPLATEMAKING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
photomechanics; photoplatemaking
Context example:
photomechanics revolutionized the practice of printing
Hypernyms ("photoplatemaking" is a kind of...):
photography (the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces)
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