/silk"skreen'/ , n.
1. Also called silkscreen process . a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
2. a print made by this technique.
v.t.
3. to print by silkscreen.
adj.
4. of, made by, or printed with silkscreen.
[ 1940-45; SILK + SCREEN ]