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Aquatint

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Noun

1. aquatint

an etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color

2. aquatint

a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color

Verb

3. aquatint

etch in aquatint

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Aquatint

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noun
1. 
a technique of etching copper with acid to produce an effect resembling the flat tones of wash or watercolour. The tone or tint is obtained by acid (aqua) biting through the pores of a ground that only partially protects the copper
2. 
an etching made in this way
verb
3. (transitive)
to etch (a block, etc) in aquatint

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Aquatint

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noun
1. 
a process by which spaces rather than lines are etched with acid, producing tones that give the effect of a wash drawing or watercolor
2. 
an etching made in this way
verb transitive
3. 
to etch in this way

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Aquatint

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n.
1. A process of etching capable of producing several tones by varying the etching time of different areas of a copper plate so that the resulting print resembles the flat tints of an ink or wash drawing.
2. An etching made by this process.

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