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Webster 1913 Edition
Hatching
Hatch′ing
,Noun.
[See 1st
Hatch
.] A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; – called also
crosshatching
. Definition 2024
hatching
hatching
English
Noun
hatching (countable and uncountable, plural hatchings)
- A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
- A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
- We got a good hatching from the Swallowtail eggs.
- The act of an egg hatching, eclosion
Translations
method of shading
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group which emerge from eggs at the same time
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act of egg hatching
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Verb
hatching
- present participle of hatch