Created a detailed plan or technical drawing of something; designed or mapped out precisely in advance.
From 'blueprint' (blue + print), originally a photographic printing process that produced white lines on blue paper (1880s), used for architectural and engineering plans. The word evolved to mean any detailed plan or design.
The actual blueprint process is now almost completely obsolete—replaced by CAD software and digital printing—yet 'blueprinted' lives on as a metaphor, showing how technology vocabulary outlives the technology itself by embedding itself in how we talk about planning.
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