engraving

1. (art) The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.countableuncountable

2. (printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.countableuncountable

3. (countable) A print produced from an engraving.Examples: "He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own."; "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."countable

4. (music) The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.countableuncountable