0 to cut a pattern, picture, etc. into a smooth surface, especially on metal or glass, using acid or a sharp instrument: --
Fittingly, the playing is nothing if not spirited, etching rather than water-colour.
During the etching process the specimens were held at room temperature for 9 days and the osmic solution was changed daily.
Microbial etching textures of olivine : use as a biosignature ?
By contrast, irrigation, terracing and wetland agriculture left visible features etched into hillsides, valleys and marshes.
The strains of this responsibility were etched on their faces.
In plasma etching the bias voltage is usually used, which is applied to the wafer to produce a high-energy ion flux.
Alternatively, surface stereom could have been filled with syntaxial cements and then etched out during weathering.
Because the labels were not of paper but were etched on, the print naming the selection was hardly legible.
