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litho-

(word root) stone
Examples of words with the root litho-: lithograph
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lith·o

 (lĭth′ō)
n. pl. lith·os
A lithograph.
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litho

(ˈlaɪθəʊ)
nadjadv, pl -thos
(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) short for lithography, lithograph, lithographic, or lithographically. See lithography
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lith•o

(ˈlɪθ oʊ)

n., pl. lith•os, n.
1. lithography.
2. lithograph.
adj.
3. lithographic.
v.t.
4. to lithograph.
[shortened form]

litho-

a combining form meaning “stone,” “calculus”: lithography.
Also, esp. before a vowel, lith-.
[< Greek, comb. form of líthos]

litho.

or lithog,

1. lithograph.
2. lithography.
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Translations

litho

n (inf)Litho nt
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Terail McDonald attacked another 17-year-old boy in Billy Fury Way, just off Lithos Road, on November 6 last year and was arrested just two days later.
Clr Benson was responding to a report by Wetherby-based Lithos Consulting, which said an investigation of the 11.4 acre site had revealed 12 suspected mine entries.
As the Stilleans recover from the miracle of the averted battle with the Pietrans, Donil's sister, Dara, sets out on a quest for vengeance, her sights set on killing their leader (or Lithos), Witt.
Fisher, "Brown diamonds and high pressure high temperature treatment," Lithos, vol.
An Assing Lithos 3000 portable spectrometer with a Mo X-ray tube operating at 25 kV, 0.300 mA, with a collimator of 2 mm diameter and a Zr filter, was used to measure the effectiveness of the treatment on the original parchment document.
This mineral was first described by Swedish mineralogist Freiherr Axel Fredrick Cronstedt in 1756, who gave the name "zeolite", which originates from the Greek words "stones that boils" (Greek zeo = boil; lithos = stone) in reference to their behavior of bubbling when heated (MUMPTON, 1999).
The postcards, lithos and porcelains were all produced in Germany.
Pecskay, "Origin and geodynamic significance of Tertiary postcollisional basaltic magmatism in Serbia (central Balkan Peninsula)," Lithos, vol.
David Bennett, Bennett Trenchless Engineers; Glenn Boyce, Jacobs Associates; Steven Kramer, AECOM; Joe Barsoom, Stantec; Larry Johnson, Hobas Pipe USA; Barry Sorteberg, Clean Slurry Technology; Ray Post, Huxted Tunneling; Nod Clarke-Hackston, VMT GmbH; Craig Camp, Hatch Mott MacDonald; Vojtech Gall, Gall Zeidler Consultants; Eric Eisold, Bradshaw Construction Corp; David Ellett,(BRH-Garver Construction; Patrick Germain, Herrenknecht; Nick Strater, Brierley Associates; Robert Goodfellow and Paul Headland, Aldea Services LLC; and Nate Soule, Lithos Engineering.
The unique substance was named lithium after the Greek word lithos, meaning literally "from stone."