acrography
/æˈkɹɑɡɹəfi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Meanwhile, we may observe that the most extraordinary example of acrography is a medallion of Addinos, engraved in a similar style to that of Collas's priest, and not distinguishable from its productions except by the liars being imperfect."
- "In wood engraving every line is forced along its direction, and the very awkwardness of the operation ultimately gives an authority to the printed line. In acrography this was not so."
- "Thirty years later some prints made by a new process, "acrography, " were greeted by an editor with the remark, "Only one of half a hundred experiments which have been submitted to us in tangible form.""
- "How, then, do bibliographers and historians find out about the technologies of exotic illustrative processes like acrography, butterfly-wing printing, gypsography, selenotype and the "Via sicca" process?"
- "A characteristic of the Ebla scientific lists, to which Chapter VIII will be dedicated, is the redaction according to the principle of acrography, which orders the entries on the basis of the initial formative elements, a principle adopted many centuries later in Mesopotamia."
- "The sign lists from Fara (WVDOG 43 7 and 69) show an structure unrelated both to VE and to the OB lists, their acrography is less strict."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /æˈkɹɑɡɹəfi/
- British English: /æˈkɹɒɡɹəfi/