Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface;
2.
the act of making a lithographic print;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lithography \Li*thog"ra*phy\, n. [Cf. F. lithographie.]
1. The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a
greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed
impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main,
upon the antipathy between grease and water, which
prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to
wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See
Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.
[1913 Webster]
2. a printing process for reproducing images, using any flat
surface, such as a metal plate, in a manner similar to
lithography[1].
[PJC]
3. The process of producing patterns on semiconductor
crystals by exposing photosensitive coatings on a matrix,
such as silicon, to light patterns in the form desired for
the circuit, and subsequently treating (e.g., chemically)
the patterns thus formed in such a way as to create
integrated semiconductor circuits with the desired
properties. This is the principle method (1990's) to
create the high-density integrated circuits used in the
digital computers on which you are reading this.
[PJC] Lithoid
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lithography
n 1: a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone
surface
2: the act of making a lithographic print
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "lithography":
albertype, artist lithography, book printing, chromotypography,
chromotypy, chromoxylography, collotype, color printing,
coloration, coloring, dyeing, electronography,
electrostatic printing, emblazonry, graphic arts, gravure,
halftone engraving, history of printing, illumination,
job printing, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving,
line engraving, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mimeograph,
offset, offset lithography, onset, palaeotypography, photo-offset,
photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process,
photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography,
phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, pigmentation,
planographic printing, planography, printing, printmaking,
publication, publishing, relief printing, rotary photogravure,
rotogravure, sheetwork, staining, stencil, three-color printing,
tinction, tinging, tinting, two-color printing, typography,
typolithography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting,
xylotypography, zincography