rotogravure

1. 1.

   printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press

   Broaderphotogravure
2. 2.

   printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press

   Broaderphotojournalism

   Part ofnewspaper
3. 3.

   using photography to produce a plate for printing

   Synonymsphotogravure

   Broadergravure

Other forms of rotogravure

plural

rotogravures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rotogravure

What does rotogravure mean?

rotogravure means "printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rotogravure?

rotogravure has 4 syllables: ro-to-gra-vure. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for rotogravure?

Close synonyms include photogravure. 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 rotogravure a common word?

rotogravure 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.