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Word Meanings - ELECTRO-ENGRAVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.

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  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • ENGRAVING
    1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration
  • PROCESSIONARY
    Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
  • ENGRAVEMENT
    1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.
  • ELECTRICITY
    1. A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by
  • PROCESSIONING
    A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
  • ENGRAVED
    Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines. (more info) 1. Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
  • PROCESS PLATE
    A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process. A very slow photographic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used esp. for making lantern slides.
  • PROCESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession. The processional services became more frequent. Milman.
  • PROCESSIONER
    1. One who takes part in a procession. 2. A manual of processions; a processional. Fuller.
  • PROCESS
    Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis. (more info) 1. The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance. "Long process of time." Milton. The thoughts of men are widened with the
  • ENGRAVER
    One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
  • ENGRAVERY
    The trade or work of an engraver. Sir T. Browne.
  • PROCESSION
    An orderly and ceremonial progress of persons, either from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church, within or without. Shipley. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly,
  • ENGRAVE
    To deposit in the grave; to bury. "Their corses to engrave." Spenser.
  • PYROELECTRICITY
    Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
  • ACID PROCESS
    That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
  • BARREL PROCESS
    A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
  • PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
    Electricity produced by light.
  • BASIC PROCESS
    A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
  • PAYNE'S PROCESS
    A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.
  • ELECTRO-ENGRAVING
    The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.
  • FLOTATION PROCESS
    A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the
  • THERMOELECTRICITY
    Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.
  • WELDON'S PROCESS
    A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.
  • THOMAS PROCESS
    See ABOVE
  • TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
    A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
  • WASHOE PROCESS
    The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.
  • MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY
    That branch of science which treats of the development of electricity by the action of magnets; -- the counterpart of electro- magnetism. (more info) 1. Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.

 

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