blueprint.
A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
Meaning & usage
A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
A print produced with this process.
A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
Where this word comes from
From blue + print. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842.
To make a blueprint for.
The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.
To make a detailed operational plan for; to design or plan out.
They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.
Where this word comes from
From blue + print. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842.
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