etching
The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
Other meanings
The image created by this process.
A kind of
- engraving
Related words
- cryoetching
- electroetching
- photoetching
- see someone's etchings
- etching scribe
- abdominal etching
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “etching” 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.