Ablation vs Etching - What's the difference?
ablation | etching |
(obsolete) A carrying or taking away; removal.
(medicine) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
(sciences) The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as vaporization under heat or chipping.
(geology) The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion, mass wasting.
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(lb) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
(lb) The image created by this process.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching ; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."