Lithography Definition

lĭ-thŏgrə-fē
noun
The art or process of printing from a flat stone or metal plate by a method based on the repulsion between grease and water: the design is put on the surface with a greasy material, and then water and printing ink are successively applied; the greasy parts, which repel water, absorb the ink, but the wet parts do not.
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The process of printing a lithograph on a hard, flat surface; originally the printing surface was a flat piece of stone that was etched with acid to form a surface that would selectively transfer ink to the paper; the stone has now been replaced, in general, with a metal plate.

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Noun

Singular:
lithography
Plural:
lithographies

Origin of Lithography

  • 1813. From German Lithographie, from Ancient Greek λίθος (lithos, “stone") + γράφειν (graphein, “to write").

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Lithography Sentence Examples

  • The art of lithography greatly affected the production of maps.

  • Copperengraving, for which it was formerly noted, is no longer carried on; but printing, lithography and publishing have acquired a considerable development, one of the best-known Continental newspapers being the Allgemeine Zeitung or Augsburg Gazette.

  • For the nature and method of preparing these surfaces see respectively Engraving (and allied articles), Lithography and Typography.

  • Lithography, which was invented at Munich at the end of the 18th century, is extensively practised here.

  • The falls in the river afford motive power to the cloth and cotton mills (spinning and weaving)-the staple industries-and to factories for sugar, paper, lithography, tobacco and carpets, joinery works and breweries.

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