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microprinting

microprinting noun: microprint.

Noun

microprinting (uncountable)

  1. Microprint.
    • Legitimate Indian passports feature a line in microprinting that reads "Indian Passport Control" across the photo page.2009 February 3, Rick Westhead, “Dozens dupe Indian airline, enter Canada”, in Toronto Star
  2. The generation of microprint.
    • Microprinting of hydrophobic gold surfaces with carboxy terminated thiols generates hydrophilic domains.1998, Daniel Jed Harrison, Albert Van Den Berg, Micro Total Analysis Systems '98

Origin of microprinting

From micro- + printing.

Questions about microprinting

What does microprinting mean?
Microprinting means microprint.
What part of speech is microprinting?
Microprinting is a noun.

Words near microprinting in the dictionary

  1. microprices
  2. microprint
  3. microprinted
  4. microprinter
  5. microprinters
  6. microprinting
  7. microprints
  8. microprism
  9. microprismatic
  10. microprisms
  11. microprobe

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