Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To produce (a printing-surface) upon a photographed plate by etching with acids.

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

  • transitive verb To engrave, or make an engraving of, by any photomechanical process involving etching of the plate.

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Examples

  • That's a Hasegawa Nakajima Tenzan (Jill) in 1 / 48 scale - full of photo-etch too!

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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