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means A printing technique where ink is pushed through a fine mesh screen onto a surface, with a stencil blocking the areas meant to stay bare.

from The craft traces back to stencil printing in ancient China and Japan, but the modern version grew from silk mesh stencils developed in the late 1800s-early 1900s, which is why it's still often called 'silkscreen printing' even though silk has largely given way to synthetic mesh. The word itself is a straightforward compound — 'screen' for the taut mesh fabric that holds the stencil, 'printing' for the transfer of ink — a plainly descriptive name for a technique that, unusually, kept its literal fabric long after the material changed.