LITHOGRAPHY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of making a lithographic print

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("lithography" is a kind of...):

printmaking (artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens)

Derivation:

lithographer (a printmaker who uses lithography)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lithography" is a kind of...):

planographic printing; planography (the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lithography"):

photolithography (a planographic printing process using plates made from a photographic image)

chromolithography (single- or multi-color lithography)

offset lithography (offset printing by lithography)