photomechanical

1. 1.

   of or relating to or involving various methods of using photography to make plates for printing

Questions about photomechanical

What does photomechanical mean?

photomechanical means "of or relating to or involving various methods of using photography to make plates for printing".

How many syllables are in photomechanical?

photomechanical has 6 syllables and divides as pho-to-me-cha-ni-cal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is photomechanical a common word?

photomechanical 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.