planography

Questions about planography

What does planography mean?

planography means "the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent)".

How many syllables are in planography?

planography has 4 syllables and divides as pla-no-gra-phy 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.

What is another word for planography?

Close synonyms include planographic printing. 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 planography a common word?

planography 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.