photoprocessn.
/ˈfəʊtəʊˌprəʊsɛs/, U.S. /ˈfoʊdoʊˌprɑsɛs/ 1. A process (in later use: spec. a printing process) involving photography. Frequently attributive.
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society > communication > printing > specific methods or processes > [noun] > others
stereotype1800
typolithography1825
fluorography1840
glyphography1843
photoprocess1875
process work1881
recess printing1887
process engraving1889
screening1894
rotogravure1913
offset printing1915
thermography1928
electrography1953
flexography1954
recess1958
impact printing1966
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1689/2 Photo-processes,..Photography... Photo-mechanical processes.
1897 Daily News 1 Apr. 5/4 Photo-process classes for the instruction of all comers actually engaged in any branch of the photo-mechanical, photographic, designing, lithographic, engraving, and printing crafts.
1905 Science 3 Nov. 564/1 Much of this reproduction and copying has evidently been done by means of photo-processes.
1962 F. T. Day Introd. to Paper ix. 105 Most blocks are produced by photo-process engraving.
2002 Packaging Digest (Nexis) 1 Sept. 60 Graphics are printed on the fiberboard using a four-color photoprocess-printing method, described as an advanced flexo process, using proprietary, heat-resistant inks.
2. A biological or chemical process involving light.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > using light
photoprocess1910
photorecovery1950
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > miscellaneous other processes
redintegrationa1550
decoction1555
fixion1555
cementation1592
fumigation1617
spiritualization1651
retortion1657
rocking1673
phosphorizationa1687
concentration1689
humectation1706
animalization1733
hyperoxygenation1793
bituminization1804
assimilation1830
metamorphosis1843
transformation1857
retorting1858
tincturation1860
regeneration1869
nitrification1880
diagenesis1886
aluminothermy1900
aluminothermics1902
photoprocess1910
olation1931
mass transfer1937
reconcentration1956
tritiation1961
borohydride reduction1965
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > scientific effects of light > [noun] > process involving light
photoprocess1910
1910 Proc. Royal Soc. 1909–10 A. 83 442 The actual photo-process undergone by the silver halides in the emulsion film is not yet known.
1926 Trans. Faraday Soc. 21 560 Weigert sees in the photosensitisation of ozone decomposition by chlorine, the simplest possible photoprocess.
1974 Photochem. & Photobiol. 19 441/2 The versatility of flavins as photosensitizers in numerous photoprocesses.
1995 News & Rec. (Greensboro, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 10 Dec. 16 These experiments model the initial events in natural photoprocesses such as photosynthesis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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