chemiglyphic
chemiglyphic adjective: engraved by chemical etching.
Adjective
chemiglyphic (not comparable)
- Engraved by chemical etching.
- This I have great expectation of determining to be a practicable method of producing a chemiglyphic line-engraving; but the essential idea of this is probably due to M. Gaudin instead of myself.1855, Annual Report of the Director, United States Coast Survey, page 55
- Twenty-five years later the germs of the collotypic processes were just being hatched out, and to-day the brood of photographic, collotypic, and chemiglyphic processes has become so numerous that only a Special Committee of some future Pan-Graphic Convention will ever manage to get their very names...1910, Louis Edward Levy, “The Pictorial Age”, in Process Photogram, volume 17, page 242
Origin of chemiglyphic
From chemi- + glyphic.
Questions about chemiglyphic
- What does chemiglyphic mean?
- Chemiglyphic means engraved by chemical etching.
- What part of speech is chemiglyphic?
- Chemiglyphic is an adjective.
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