embossment
- noun
- /ɪmˈbɔːsmənt/
- Specialized
:
relieve
- The old chest featured an elaborate embossment that made it stand out among the furniture.
Examples
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The artist created a beautiful embossment of a floral design on the book cover.
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She admired the intricate embossment on the metal plaque that commemorated the event.
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And as he gazed, the bright embossments began to shiver and flake.
Fiction book (1994) -
These embossments include holes, channels, and concave or convex portions.
Academic text (2001) -
The Sermatech engineers begin by designing the tooling to machine the embossments for each section of the casing.
Academic text (2001) -
Bruce kneels, touches the leather cover, fingers lingering for a moment on his father's embossment, before he turns yellowed pages to the last entry.
Fiction book (1995) -
A major advantage of ECM over traditional machining is that it can impart complex shapes, such as embossments on engine casings, in one pass, instead of requiring multiple cuts.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
422
3.3
A pattern or picture used to decorate a surface
16
7.3
A carved design that stands out from a flat surface, like on a coin
15
5.8
Something added to make a story or thing more interesting
A carved design on a wall that stands out from a flat background
A raised image carved into a flat surface that stands out from the background
How Raised
- Specialized
1
8.2
- Specialized
16
7.3
- Specialized
- Specialized
2
9.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Embossment comes from emboss, which long ago meant to make a boss, an old word for a 'bump' or 'knob'. So an embossment is a raised design or pattern that 'stands out' on a surface.