A method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface.

Roget 558: engraving, chalcography^†; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta^†; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography^†, glyptography^†, cerography^†, lithography, chromolithography^†, photolithography, zincography^†, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph^†, glyptograph^†, cerograph^†, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph^†, glyphograph^†, holograph.    impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching; mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint^†; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype^†, autotype^†, heliotype^†.    graver, burin^†, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block, negative; die, punch, stamp.    printing; plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing^†, color printing, lithographic printing; type printing etc. 591; three-color process.    illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe [Fr.], tailpiece.    [person who inscribes on stone] lapidary, lapidarian.    ... show more

Dutch: steendrukkerij
Polish: litografia, kamieniodruk

The act of making a lithographic print.