Definition of Photolithography

1. Noun. A planographic printing process using plates made from a photographic image.

Generic synonyms: Lithography

Definition of Photolithography

1. n. The art or process of producing photolithographs.

Definition of Photolithography

1. Noun. A lithographic procedure in which printing plates are made using a photographic process. ¹

2. Noun. An optical exposure process used in the manufacture of integrated circuits. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Photolithography

1. The art or process of producing photolithographs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Photolithography

photokinetic
photokinetics
photokymograph
photolabeling
photolabelling
photolabile
photolike
photolithograph
photolithographed
photolithographer
photolithographers
photolithographic
photolithographically
photolithographing
photolithographs
photolithography
photolithotroph
photolitically
photological
photologist
photologists
photology
photoluminesce
photoluminescence
photoluminescent
photolyase
photolyse
photolysed
photolyses
photolysing

Literary usage of Photolithography

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological by John Livesy Ridgway, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1920)
"Photolithography, like other lithographic processes, has been improved greatly ... As photolithography is a direct process and is relatively cheap it is the ..."

2. Horgan's Half-tone and Photomechanical Processes by Stephen Henry Horgan (1913)
"Photolithography, or the application of photography to lithographic printing, ... Had the offset press then been perfected, photolithography would have been ..."

3. Topographic Instructions of the United States Geological Survey by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1913)
"16 PREPARATION OF RIVER-SURVEY MAPS FOR Photolithography. SIZE OF SHEETS. Sheets showing river surveys are of uniform size (18 by 22 inches) with all plan ..."

4. The Camera and the Pencil by Marcus Aurelius Root (1864)
"... Photolithography, &o. IT will not be irrelevant to the following history, if 1 preface it with a brief extract from an English work of a century or more ..."

5. The Applications of Physical Forces by Amédée Guillemin (1877)
"... —Photolithography. § I.—DIFFERENT PERMANENT PROCESSES WITH CARBON AND PRINTING INK. WHATEVER process may be employed for fixing daguerreotype or ..."

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