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photolithography

photolithography noun: a lithographic procedure in which printing plates are made using a photographic process.

Noun

photolithography (uncountable)

  1. A lithographic procedure in which printing plates are made using a photographic process.
    • The appearance of the book is as unattractive as its subject-matter. It has been reproduced from typescript by photolithography, as many theses are in these days of expensive printing; but the copy photographed has been carelessly typed on a machine with a defective spacing-mechanism and a number...1965, A. J. Bliss, “Die Reception des a-nasalis romanischer Lehnwörter im Mittelenglischen und seine Weiterentwicklung in Standard u. Dialekten by Ursula Schmidt. Heidelberg, 1963. xliii + 313 pp.”...
  2. An optical exposure process used in the manufacture of integrated circuits.

Origin of photolithography

From photo- (“light, photography”) + lithography.

Questions about photolithography

What does photolithography mean?
Photolithography means a lithographic procedure in which printing plates are made using a photographic process.
What part of speech is photolithography?
Photolithography is a noun.

Words near photolithography in the dictionary

  1. photolithographers
  2. photolithographic
  3. photolithographically
  4. photolithographing
  5. photolithographs
  6. photolithography
  7. photolithoprint
  8. photolithoprinted
  9. photolithoprinting
  10. photolithoprints
  11. photolithos

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