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COLLOTYPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does collotype mean?
• COLLOTYPE (noun)
The noun COLLOTYPE has 1 sense:
1. a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors
Familiarity information: COLLOTYPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
collotype; collotype printing; photogelatin process
Hypernyms ("collotype" is a kind of...):
planographic printing; planography (the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collotype"):
hectograph; heliotype (duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy)
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