engraving

Etymology

noun

1. (art) The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
2. (printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
3. (countable) A print produced from an engraving.
   He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess
4. (music) The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of engrave