PHOTOGRAVURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photogravure mean? 

• PHOTOGRAVURE (noun)
  The noun PHOTOGRAVURE has 3 senses:

1. printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods

2. an intaglio print produced by gravure

3. using photography to produce a plate for printing

  Familiarity information: PHOTOGRAVURE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOGRAVURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("photogravure" is a kind of...):

gravure; intaglio; intaglio printing (a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photogravure"):

rotogravure (printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An intaglio print produced by gravure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gravure; heliogravure; photogravure

Hypernyms ("photogravure" is a kind of...):

print (a picture or design printed from an engraving)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Using photography to produce a plate for printing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

photogravure; rotogravure

Hypernyms ("photogravure" is a kind of...):

gravure (the act of intaglio printing)