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rotogravure
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rotogravure has 3 senses
- rotogravure(n = noun.communication) Array - printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press; Array is a kind of photogravure
- rotogravure(n = noun.communication) Array - printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press; Array is a kind of photojournalism
- rotogravure(n = noun.act) photogravure - using photography to produce a plate for printing; Array is a kind of gravure
is a part of newspaper, paper
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rotogravure, n.
1 a printing system using a rotary press with intaglio cylinders, usu. running at high speed.
2 a sheet etc. printed with this system.
1 a printing system using a rotary press with intaglio cylinders, usu. running at high speed.
2 a sheet etc. printed with this system.
Etymology
G Rotogravur (name of a company) assim. to PHOTOGRAVURE
THESAURUS
rotogravure
albertype, book printing, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, collotype, color printing, electronography, electrostatic printing, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, history of printing, job printing, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mimeograph, offset, offset lithography, onset, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, printing, printmaking, publication, publishing, relief printing, rotary photogravure, sheetwork, stencil, three-color printing, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography
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