Definition of "embossment" []

• The act or process of embossing or the condition of being embossed. (noun)
• Embossed ornamentation. (noun)
• The distance between the nondeformed part of a document surface and a specified point on a printed character in optical character recognition. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I imagined some New York City budget gap that had needed closing decades before had meant the end of embossment."
• "Yeah, backward states such as NM, require or have in the past required that all absentee ballots/ballot envelope have a notary public embossment and signature."
• "During the excavation works, there have been found also two relieves and a limestone slab with a lion embossment."