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Benday process definition

☆ Ben·day process (ben′dā′)

Photoengraving a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
also written Ben Day process

Etymology: after Benjamin Day (1838-1916), N.Y. printer

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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