electrotypen.adj.
/ᵻˈlɛktrə(ʊ)tʌɪp/, U.S. /əˈlɛktrəˌtaɪp/, /iˈlɛktrəˌtaɪp/ Manufacturing Technology and Printing.
A copy or duplicate of an object, esp. a printing plate, made by a process involving the electrolytic deposition of copper or other metal; a relief printing plate made in this way. Also occasionally: the process of making such copies. Also attributive or as adj.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > cast or impression > techniques for producing
rupography1838
electrotype1840
electrotyping1842
replica method1941
replica technique1942
the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > cast or impression > plaster, wax, etc.
ectype1662
plaster cast1773
electrotype1840
sulphur-impression1840
voltatype1842
sulphur1867
squeeze1882
sulphur-cast1909
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > making of polytypes, etc.
polytypage1803
electrotype1840
electrotyping1842
cerography1846
chemitypy1851
1840 Times 22 Jan. 1/2 (advt.) The exhibition consists of electrical and magnetic experiments,..electrotype, diver and diving bell, [etc.].
1841 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1840 Trans. 89 Prof. Jacobi made some observations respecting his discovery of Galvanoplastics, or electrotype..communicated..to the Petersburgh Academy on the 5th of October, 1838.
1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) III. 537 The Electrotype Process is now one of the great powers which manufacturing art employs.
1859 Sir W. Harris Electr. 190 The useful arts..namely, electro~metallurgy, electrotype, etc.
1876 R. Routledge Discov. & Inventions 19th Cent. 461 Woodcut illustrations are now always printed from electrotype copies of the engraved blocks.
1903 P. W. Joyce Social Hist. Anc. Ireland p. xiii I have received permission to use electrotypes from the original blocks of nearly a dozen of the illustrations in Miss Stokes's ‘Early Christian Art in Ireland’.
1970 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 22 Mar. 12/4 (heading) Electrotype fake coins quite difficult to detect.
1974 V. Strauss Printing Industry v. 228/1 Electrotypes are the elite of duplicate relief image carriers because they combine the highest quality, greatest precision, and exceptionally long press life.
1992 Numismatist Mar. 416/1 This month's column considers electrotypes and techniques of producing cast counterfeits.
2003 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Conservation 42 201/2 An electrotype or electroform of one of the silver Heterpheres bracelets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
electrotypev.
/ᵻˈlɛktrə(ʊ)tʌɪp/, U.S. /əˈlɛktrəˌtaɪp/, /iˈlɛktrəˌtaɪp/ Manufacturing Technology and Printing.
transitive. To make an electrotype of (an original). Also: to make by electrotyping (a copy or duplicate, esp. a reprint of a book). Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > engrave in intaglio [verb (transitive)] > polytype, etc.
polytype1839
electrotype1840
1840 H. D. Rogers Descr. Geol. New Jersey 50 The plates can be electrotyped at the Coast Survey office in Washington.
1847 Lady G. C. Fullerton Grantley Manor I. viii. 273 We are only electrotyped.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xi. 308 All its reliefs and intaglios have electrotyped themselves in the medallions that hang round the walls of your memory's chamber.
1858 J. G. Palfrey Hist. New Eng. I. verso title page Cambridge: electrotyped and printed by Metcalf and Company.
1921 H. C. Forster From Xylographs to Lead Molds 52 Your expensively prepared advertisement, if it is to appear sharp and clean.., should be electrotyped by your plate-maker.
1955 Times 4 May 12/3 Some people on the committee suggested that copies could be electrotyped at a much cheaper rate.
2003 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Conservation 42 42/2 This was the master plate from which subsequent printing plates were cast or electrotyped.
Derivatives
eˈlectroˌtyper n. a person who makes electrotypes.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > cast or impression > one who produces
electrotyper1841
electrotypist1845
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > making of polytypes, etc. > person
electrotyper1841
electrotypist1845
picker1882
1841 A. Smee Elements Electro-metall. ii. i. 50 It is not by knowing these principles only, but by putting them into practice, that the electrotyper can attain any certainty in his operations.
1853 Sci. Amer. 17 Sept. 5/4 The engraving was executed by Frank Leslie; Wm. Filmer was the electrotyper of it, and it was printed by E. J. Johnston.
1904 T. L. De Vinne Mod. Methods Bk. Composition viii. 320 The page so formed with bearers will lighten the work of the electrotyper and materially aid him in producing a printable plate.
1990 D. A. Redmond Sherlock Holmes among Pirates v. 66 Thomas D. Hurst had begun as an electrotyper..starting a reprint firm in 1871 specializing in cheap twelvemos.
eˈlectroˌtypist n. = electrotyper n.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > cast or impression > one who produces
electrotyper1841
electrotypist1845
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > making of polytypes, etc. > person
electrotyper1841
electrotypist1845
picker1882
1845 Athenæum 11 Jan. 42 Copying for the electrotypist.
1898 Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Herald 10 Sept. 2/4 The electrotypist of the British museum has produced such admirable facsimiles of ancient coins that experts have been puzzled by them.
1993 R. J. Zboray Fictive People i. 7 On the top floor worked the compositors and electrotypists, the best paid and most respected of the labor hierarchy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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