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Blueprint
1. A construction plan. It is called a blueprint because it historically has been printed on blue paper with white lines.
2. In photography, a copy of a periodical printed before final editing in which images are shown on blue paper.
3. Informal, a plan.
2. In photography, a copy of a periodical printed before final editing in which images are shown on blue paper.
3. Informal, a plan.
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blueprint
A detailed set of plans used as a guide for construction.Because of the economies of a very inexpensive method of creating and copying such plans, they were formerly characterized by white lines on blue paper.
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