engraving

Noun

engraving (countable and uncountable, plural engravings)

1. The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.
2. The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
3. (countable) A print produced from an engraving.
   • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
   • He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
4. The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.