Etching (disambiguation)

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Etch or etching may refer to:

• Etching, a printmaking technique in art
• Etching (glass), a glass decoration technique
• Industrial etching
• Etching (microfabrication), a process in producing microelectronics, which term covers:
• ferric chloride is used as an etchant for copper-based metals in printed circuit boards.

NB: all of the above can be called Chemical etching, though the term is mostly used for Industrial etching. An etcher is most likely to mean a printmaker. An etchant is any chemical used to etch, but probably refers to an industrial process.

• Etch, a character from the film Toy Story
• Etch, the codename for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0

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