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Photolithography

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A lithographic procedure in which printing plates are made using a photographic process. uncountable

    "The appearance of the book is as unattractive as its subject-matter. It has been reproduced from typescript by photolithography, as many theses are in these days of expensive printing; but the copy photographed has been carelessly typed on a machine with a defective spacing-mechanism and a number of damaged characters; to make matters worse, the typist has failed to keep the type clean."

  2. 2
    a planographic printing process using plates made from a photographic image wordnet
  3. 3
    An optical exposure process used in the manufacture of integrated circuits. uncountable

Etymology

From photo- (“light, photography”) + lithography.

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