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Blueprint
A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842, the process allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited number of copies. It was widely used for over a century for the reproduction of specification drawings used in construction and industry. The blueprint process was characterized by white lines on a blue background, a negative of the original. The process was not able to reproduce color or shades of grey.
The process is now obsolete. It was first largely displaced by the diazo whiteprint process, and later by large-format xerographic photocopiers.
The term blueprint continues to be used less formally to refer to any floor plan (and even less formally, any type of plan). Practicing engineers, architects, and drafters just call them “drawings” or “prints”.
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Blueprint (noun)
A type of paper-based drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
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Blueprint (noun)
A print produced with this process.
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Blueprint (noun)
A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
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Blueprint (noun)
Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
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Blueprint (verb)
To make a blueprint for.
“The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.”
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Blueprint (verb)
To make a detailed operational plan for.
“They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.”
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Layout (noun)
A limits.
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Layout (noun)
A plan for such arrangement.
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Layout (noun)
The act of laying out something.
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Layout (noun)
The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints.
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Layout (noun)
A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
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Layout (noun)
A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.
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Layout (noun)
the way in which the parts of something are arranged or laid out
“the road layout”
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Layout (noun)
the way in which text or pictures are set out on a page
“the layout is uncluttered and the illustrations are helpful”
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Layout (noun)
the process of setting out material on a page
“doing layout for newspapers and magazines”
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Layout (noun)
a thing arranged or set out in a particular way
“a model railway layout”