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  2. Monotyping - Wikipedia

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    Both involve the transfer of ink from a plate to the paper, canvas, or other surface that will ultimately hold the work of art. In the case of monotypes, the plate is a featureless plate. It contains no features that will impart any definition to successive prints. The most common feature would be the etched or engraved line on a metal plate.

  3. Black-figure pottery - Wikipedia

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    Heracles and Geryon on an Attic black-figured amphora with a thick layer of transparent gloss, c. 540 BCE, now in the Munich State Collection of Antiquities.. Black-figure pottery painting (also known as black-figure style or black-figure ceramic; Ancient Greek: μελανόμορφα, romanized: melanómorpha) is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases.

  4. Heliography - Wikipedia

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    The plate was exposed under an ordinary engraving. Heliography was also used to capture a scene directly from nature with a camera . Heliography [ a ] is an early photographic process, based on the hardening of bitumen in sunlight.

  5. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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    Lines marked around circular ceramic utensils (such as plates, jars or lids) using any method of decoration which can be applied at all stages of manufacture. Banding is the action of marking a band. Batt Less commonly also known as a "batterboard", thin slab of wood, plaster or plastic used to support ware during shaping.

  6. Anatomical terminology - Wikipedia

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    Anatomy is often described in planes, referring to two-dimensional sections of the body. A section is a two-dimensional surface of a three-dimensional structure that has been cut. A plane is an imaginary two-dimensional surface that passes through the body. Three planes are commonly referred to in anatomy and medicine: [1] [2]: 4

  7. Plate - Wikipedia

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    Plate, element of a folding machine; Plate armour, body armor made from metal plates; Vehicle registration plate (license plate), sign attached to a vehicle in order to identify it L-plate (learner plate), sign attached to a vehicle to indicate that the driver has a provisional driving license; Plated, item with a deposition of metallic layers

  8. Medical illustration - Wikipedia

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    Medical illustrations have been made possibly since the beginning of medicine [1] in any case for hundreds (or thousands) of years. Many illuminated manuscripts and Arabic scholarly treatises of the medieval period contained illustrations representing various anatomical systems (circulatory, nervous, urogenital), pathologies, or treatment methodologies.

  9. Plate (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    dermal plates partly or completely covering the body of the fish in the order Gasterosteiformes that includes the sticklebacks and relatives; plates of dermal bones of the armadillo; Zygomatic plate, a bony plate derived from the flattened front part of the zygomatic arch (cheekbone) in rodent anatomy