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Definition of Etching

1. Noun. An impression made from an etched plate.

2. Noun. An etched plate made with the use of acid.

3. Noun. Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them.

Definition of Etching

1. n. The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t.

Definition of Etching

1. Noun. The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid. ¹

2. Noun. The image created by this process. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of etch) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Etching

1. an etched design [n -S]

Medical Definition of Etching

1. 1. The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. T. 2. A design carried out by means of the above process; a pattern on metal, glass, etc, produced by etching. 3. An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate. Etching figures, a stitch used outline embroidery. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Etching

etatistes etats etazolate etc etc. etcetera etceteras etch etchant etchants

etched etcher etchers etches etchi etching (current term) etching scribe etchings eten etendue

etens eteostic eteostics eterminable eternal eternal damnation eternal life eternal recurrence eternal rest eternal return

Literary usage of Etching

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

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Nevertheless, lines of moderate thickness are used effectively in etching when covered with liner shading, and very thick lines indeed were employed with ..."

2. The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel by Albert Sauveur (1918)
"The production of these etching pits, however, is often a troublesome and ... Heyn recommends for that purpose etching with double chloride of copper and ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"etching. of water. The action of this acid is very rapid; ... This must be done with great care, so as not to fill up the lines already cut by the etching, ..."

4. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their ...by Algernon Graves by Algernon Graves (1906)
"1091 Ipswich; etching. 1095 Branscombe; etching. 1876. 276 Near Cromer. ... Two etchings. Fontainebleau; etching. Venice from the Lido; etching. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"These are a few of the moat essential technical points in etching, ... The two countries in which etching has been most practised are Holland and France. ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1875)
"Kick, of Prague, to the subject of etching iron with acids. After many experiments with the different acids and some other etching solutions, Prof. ..."

7. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The third way of covering a plate for etching is to apply the ground in solution as collodion is applied by photographers. The ground may be dissolved in ..."

8. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"Cogent evidence of the geometrical arrangement of the etching pits is given by Humfrey,1 who, in studying a very large and regular dendrite of lead, ..."

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