Word Meanings - METALLOGRAPHIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.

PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
METALLOGRAPHY
1. The science or art of metals and metal working; also, a treatise on metals. 2. A method of transferring impressions of the grain of wood to metallic surfaces by chemical action. Knight. 3. A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach