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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)

  1. A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
  2. 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.
  3. The act of an egg hatching, eclosion

Translations

Verb

hatching

  1. present participle of hatch