PLANOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does planography mean? 

• PLANOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun PLANOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

1. the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent)

  Familiarity information: PLANOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

planographic printing; planography

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

printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)

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

collotype; collotype printing; photogelatin process (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)

lithography (a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface)

Derivation:

planographic (of or relating to or involving planography)