Lithograph

//ˈlɪθəɡɹæf// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A printed image produced by lithography.

    "To one side, by a tall window, a tiny Renoir lithograph of a bather."

  2. 2
    duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern wordnet
  3. 3
    a print produced by lithography wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To create a copy of an image through lithography.
  2. 2
    make by lithography wordnet

Synonyms

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aquatintautolithographbe a printmakerblockblock printcarve

Example

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"The people in M.C. Escher's lithograph, "Ascending and Descending", seem to climb up and up a set of stairs, but keep returning to the same level where they started. This is an optical illusion. Could there be a similar musical illusion? Could someone design a musical scale that always seems to be going up in pitch but also goes all the way around to the beginning? Someone could, and did."

Etymology

Back-formation from lithography, litho- (“stone”) + -graph (“that writes”).

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