LITHOGRAPHY


Meaning of LITHOGRAPHY in English

noun 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.

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