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etching
  1. (uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
  2. (countable) The image created by this process.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The skilled artisan incorporated a delicate etching of flowers into the intricate wooden carving, enhancing its aesthetic appeal.”
etchplain
  1. (geology, geomorphology) A plain (area of land, not necessarily flat) where bedrock has been subject to extensive etching or subsurface weathering.
etchant
  1. An acid or corrosive chemical used in etching.
  2. Examples:
    1. “One disadvantage of this etchant is its extremely sensitive reaction to remnant deformation layers on the surface of the prepared specimen.”
      “However, the market for NF3 use is growing rapidly, particularly as a plasma etchant and equipment cleaning agent.”
      “When there is a gap between sample and resin water, alcohol or etchant can bleed out of the gap during drying or even on the microscope.”
etchplanation
  1. (geology, geomorphology) The process of subsurface weathering or etching which creates etchplains.
etch
  1. Obsolete form of eddish.
etcher
  1. A person who etches
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In dry-point the etcher commences at once upon the bare copper plate without any ground.”
      “If the etcher wishes to add to his work the plate is revarnished and more work added.”
      “Also as he was a fine etcher and lithographer he understood the use of bold contrasting colours in particular the use of black to contrast.”
etchplains
  1. plural of etchplain
etchings
  1. plural of etching
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She does reproduce some of his more subversive etchings, although as plates, rather than prints.”
      “Right into his eighties he was producing painting after painting, entire series of etchings.”
      “The excimer laser is capable of precision etchings on a single strand of hair.”
etchants
  1. plural of etchant
etchers
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