Usually means: Carving designs into material surfaces.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. etching: Merriam-Webster
  2. etching: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. etching: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. etching: Collins English Dictionary
  5. etching: Vocabulary.com
  6. Etching, etching: Wordnik
  7. etching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. etching: Wiktionary
  9. etching: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. etching: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. etching: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. etching: Dictionary.com
  13. etching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Etching (disambiguation), Etching (glass), Etching (microfabrication), Etching: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Etching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. etching: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. etching: Rhymezone
  18. Etching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. etching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. etching: FreeDictionary.org
  21. etching: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. etching: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. etching: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. etching: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. Etching: art glossary
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Etching (disambiguation), etching: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Etching (art), Etching (disambiguation), etching: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Etching (art), Etching (glass), etching: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. etching: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. etching: Book Binding
  4. Etching: Glossary of Glass Terms
  5. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See etch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
noun:  (countable) The image created by this process.

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