ETCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does etched mean? 

• ETCHED (adjective)
  The adjective ETCHED has 1 sense:

1. cut or impressed into a surface

  Familiarity information: ETCHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut or impressed into a surface

Synonyms:

engraved; etched; graven; incised; inscribed

Context example:

engraved invitations

Similar:

carved; carven (made for or formed by carving ('carven' is archaic or literary))

 Context examples 

A thick glass slide with a chamber with a defined volume that is etched with a precisely ruled grid and is used to quantify cells or cell-sized particles in suspension.

(Hemocytometer, NCI Thesaurus)

The top is aluminum that is etched with stripes roughly 20 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Nine lines etched on ancient clay tablets that tell the Gilgamesh Flood story can now be understood in very different ways – according to a Cambridge academic.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

Elsewhere, the surface appears to be etched by fields of small pits that may have formed by a process called sublimation, in which ice turns directly from solid to gas, just as dry ice does on Earth.

(New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

The patterned and etched aluminum antenna channels the infrared radiation into this thin layer.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)