blueprint

Meanings

Noun

• A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
• A print produced with this process.
• A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
• Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

Verb

• To make a blueprint for.
• To make a detailed operational plan for.

Related

Similar words

• cyanotype, schematic
• schematic
• road map, schematic, plan, layout

Origin

• blue + print