Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The process of preparing a printing surface for electrotyping by first engraving on a wax-coated metal plate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art or process of engraving through a coating of prepared wax spread over a smooth plate from which a printing surface can be produced by the plaster process of stereotyping or by electrotyping.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek kēros, wax + type.]

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