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PHOTOGELATIN PROCESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors
Synonyms:
collotype; collotype printing; photogelatin process
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("photogelatin process" 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 "photogelatin process"):
hectograph; heliotype (duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy)
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