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Ben Day

Ben Day proper noun: a printing and photoengraving technique dating from the late 19th century, involving coloured dots or some other simple repeating pattern, spaced or overlapping, to produce more complex mixed colours.

ben day: a printing and photoengraving technique dating from the late 19th century, involving coloured dots...
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Proper noun

Ben Day

  1. (attributive) A printing and photoengraving technique dating from the late 19th century, involving coloured dots or some other simple repeating pattern, spaced or overlapping, to produce more complex mixed colours.
    • the Ben Day process; Ben Day dots

Origin of Ben Day

Named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry Day Jr.

Words formed from Ben Day

Questions about Ben Day

What does Ben Day mean?
Ben Day means a printing and photoengraving technique dating from the late 19th century, involving coloured dots or some other simple repeating pattern, spaced or overlapping, to produce more complex mixed colours.
What part of speech is Ben Day?
Ben Day is a proper noun.

Words near Ben Day in the dictionary

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  4. ben cull
  5. ben culls
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  8. Ben Franklin effect
  9. Ben Franklin effects
  10. Ben Franklins
  11. Ben Hill County

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