photolithography

English

Etymology

From photo- (“light, photography”) +‎ lithography.

Noun

photolithography (uncountable)

  1. (printing) A lithographic procedure in which printing plates are made using a photographic process.
    • 1965, A. J. Bliss, “Die Reception des a-nasalis romanischer Lehnwörter im Mittelenglischen und seine Weiterentwicklung in Standard u. Dialekten by Ursula Schmidt. Heidelberg, 1963. xliii + 313 pp.”, in Medium Ævum, volume 34, number 2, Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, →DOI, page 174:
      The appearance of the book is as unattractive as its subject-matter. It has been reproduced from typescript by photolithography, as many theses are in these days of expensive printing; but the copy photographed has been carelessly typed on a machine with a defective spacing-mechanism and a number of damaged characters; to make matters worse, the typist has failed to keep the type clean.
  2. (microelectronics) An optical exposure process used in the manufacture of integrated circuits.

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