halftone engraving

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   an engraving used to reproduce an illustration

   Synonymshalftonephotoengraving

   Broaderengraving

Questions about halftone engraving

What does halftone engraving mean?

halftone engraving means "an engraving used to reproduce an illustration".

What is another word for halftone engraving?

Close synonyms include halftone, photoengraving. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is halftone engraving a common word?

halftone engraving is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.