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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An etched stonen surface for printing, having the design in relief.
2. 2
   A print made from such a surface.
3. 3
   A machine, with a keyboard like that of a typewriter, for making a lithographic transfer sheet. It produces a perforated strip of paper which controls the printing.

Verb

1. 1
   To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. transitive

Etymology

From litho- + -type.

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