engraving
The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.
Other meanings
The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
A print produced from an engraving.
A kind of
Kinds of engraving
- dry point
- etching
- line engraving
- steel engraving
- wood engraving
Related words
- electroengraving
- wood engraving
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “engraving” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.