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linotype

[lahy-nuh-tahyp]

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verb, lin·o·typed, lin·o·typ·ing. Printing.

to typeset on a Linotype machine.

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Trademark. a brand of typesetting machine that casts solid lines of type from brass dies, or matrices, selected automatically by actuating a keyboard.

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Linotype (ˈlaɪnəʊˌtaɪp)

—n
1.	trademark a typesetting machine, operated by a keyboard, that casts an entire line on one solid slug of metal
2.	type produced by such a machine

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Linotype

1888, Amer.Eng., trademark name, from line o' type, for a composing machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-99), popular in newspaper publication early 20c.

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