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[mon-uh-tahyp] 
əˌtaɪp
–noun
| 1. | the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like. |
| 2. | the method of producing such a print. |
| 3. | Biology. the only type of its group, as a single species constituting a genus. |
Mon⋅o⋅type
[mon-uh-tahyp] Printing, Trademark.
| a brand of machine for setting and casting type, consisting of a separate keyboard for producing a paper tape containing holes in a coded pattern so that when this tape is fed into the casting unit each code evokes a unique letter cast from hot metal by a special matrix. |
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| mon·o·type (mŏn'ə-tīp') n.
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| Mon·o·type (mŏn'ə-tīp') A trademark used for a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that activates a unit that casts and sets individual characters. |
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Monotype
Mon"o*type\, Monotypic \Mon`o*typ"ic\, a. [Mono- + -type: cf. F. monotype.] (Biol.) Having but one type; containing but one representative; as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.Monotype
Mon"o*type\, n. [Mono- + -type.]1. (Biol.) The only representative of its group, as a single species constituting a genus. 2. A print (but one impression can be taken) made by painting on metal and then transferring the painting to paper by pressure; also, the process of making such prints. 3. A kind of typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets individual types.
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