Word Meanings - PHOTO-ENGRAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo- engraving of. -- Pho`to-en*grav"er , n.

Related words: (words related to PHOTO-ENGRAVE)

• PHOTOLOGIST
  One who studies or expounds the laws of light.
• PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically
• PHOTOPSIA
  An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See phosphene.
• PHOTOTHEODOLITE
  An arrangement of two photographic cameras, the plates of which may be brought into exactly the same plane, used in surveying and map making. From the differences between two pictures taken at the same moment, measurements in all dimensions of the
• PHOTOGENY
  See PHOTOGRAPHY
• PHOTOTROPISM
  The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.
• PHOTOGALVANOGRAPHY
  The art or process of making photo-electrotypes. Sir D. Brewster.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• PHOTO-ETCHING
  A photo-engraving produced by any process involving the etching of the plate.
• PHOTOGRAPHER
  One who practices, or is skilled in, photography.
• PHOTO-ETCH
  To engrave, or make an engraving of, by any photomechanical process involving etching of the plate.
• PHOTOLOGIC; PHOTOLOGICAL
  Pertaining to photology, or the doctrine of light.
• PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
  Electricity produced by light.
• PHOTOPRINT
  Any print made by a photomechanical process.
• PHOTOMICROGRAPH
  1. An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph. 2. A microscopically small photograph of an object.
• PHOTOTYPOGRAPHY
  See PHOTOTYPY
• ENGRAVING
  1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration
• PHOTOBACTERIUM
  A genus including certain comma-shaped marine bacteria which emit bluish or greenish phosphorescence. Also, any microörganism of this group.
• PHOTOLITHOGRAPHER
  One who practices, or one who employs, photolithography.
• LITHOPHOTOGRAPHY
  See PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY
• MICROPHOTOGRAPH
  1. A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc. 2. An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.