lithography
pronunciation
How to pronounce lithography in British English:
UK [lɪˈθɒgrəfi]
How to pronounce lithography in American English:
US [lɪˈθɑgrəfi]
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- Noun:
- a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface
- the act of making a lithographic print
Word Origin
- lithography (n.)
- 1813, from German Lithographie (c. 1804), coined from Greek lithos "stone" (see litho-) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy). The original printing surfaces were of stone. Process invented 1796 by Alois Senefelder of Munich (1771-1833). Hence, lithograph "a lithographic print," a back-formation first attested 1828. Earlier senses, now obsolete, were "description of stones or rocks" (1708) and "art of engraving on precious stones" (1730).
Example
- 1. Study on new method of reducing standing wave effects in lithography .
- 2. Study of bottom antireflective coating layers for deep sub-micron generation lithography and selective growth of nanoparticles .
- 3. A study of the efficiency of printed rfid tag antenna with lithography .
- 4. In lithography the electronic circuit pattern is printed photographically on to a surface .
- 5. Current nanoscale technologies can and do include everything from lithography to optics to metrology , encompassing materials science , semiconductor manufacture , and even ranging into biotechnology .