etching

The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.

Noun

  1. The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.

    Hypernyms: intaglio

    Hyponyms: aquatint mezzotint

    Coordinate Terms: engraving

  2. The image created by this process.
    • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching;...

Forms

etchings

Derived

abdominal etching cryoetching electroetching etching scribe photoetching someone's etchings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of etch