etch

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Writing these things down was a good way to organize and etch those things in my mind.

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make an etching of; "He etched her image into the surface"

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The clearest senses and uses of etch gathered in one view.

verb

make an etching of; "He etched her image into the surface"

verb

cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible; "a face etched with pain"; "the leafless branches etched against the sky"

verb

carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block; "engrave a letter"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for etch.

verb

make an etching of; "He etched her image into the surface"

verb

cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible; "a face etched with pain"; "the leafless branches etched against the sky"

verb

carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block; "engrave a letter"

verb

carve or cut a design or letters into; "engrave the pen with the owner's name"

verb

selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons

Example sentences

Writing these things down was a good way to organize and etch those things in my mind.

What are you going to have to etch on your tombstone if you don't have a dozen github URLs?

"[I]t's a bit of a stretch to say that they've rewritten the rules of refraction."Indeed.

"What, do they also expect us to cut, polish and etch our own silicon wafers as well?

This includes the electronic files; the drill plots, the photoplots, the etch resist masks and the silkscreens.

Photochemical etching can be done with $100 worth of equipment, a couple of feet of bench space and a little practice.

I learned to etch PCBs in secondary school, and the process is now much cleaner and safer thanks to modern etchants.

They lifted a fingerprint from a glass a person had held and then used an acidic solution to etch that pattern onto a mold.

We just need to add a few more terms to the equation if we etch a gradient of nano-scale resonators to the surface of our optical element.

I use PCB fabrication services because I need soldermask and through-hole plating, not because photoetch is particularly inconvenient.

Anytime an algorithm is important enough to be of interest for hundreds of millions of user it is worth the investment to etch its primitives into silicon.

If it is said that the NSA cannot target emails and listen to phone calls, that is going to etch itself into the public consciousness that the technological apparatus required is not present.

I can just about see a niche for their product in education, but even that is quite tenuous; The throughput of this machine is likely to be a major bottleneck in a classroom setting versus etching 30 boards on the same panel.

There wasn't anything crazy like uranium or other chemicals that could create amphetamines, but I do recall blindly mixing ingredients in a test tube, blowing the top and bottom of it out and covering a portion of the roof in the mixture which then proceeded to burn through the paint and etch the wood.