galvanography

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

galvanography (uncountable)

The art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy.
A method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “galvanography”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)