WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
li•thog•ra•phy /lɪˈθɑgrəfi/USA pronunciation
n. [uncountable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Fine Arta printing technique in which a stone or metal plate is treated so that ink attaches to it only in the areas that contain the image to be printed.
li•thog•ra•phy
(li thog′rə fē),USA pronunciation n.
lith•o•graph•ic
(lith′ə graf′ik),USA pronunciation lith′o•graph′i•cal, adj.
lith′o•graph′i•cal•ly, adv.
- Printing, Fine Artthe art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
- Fine Art, Printinga similar process in which a substance other than stone, as aluminum or zinc, is used. Cf. offset (def. 6).
- Neo-Latin lithographia. See litho-, -graphy
- 1700–10;
'lithographic' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
aquatone
- autolithography
- bromoil process
- collotype
- desensitize
- lith
- litho
- lithograph
- lithography
- offset
- photolithography
- restrike
- tusche