monotype
the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
the method of producing such a print.
Biology. the only type of its group, as a single species constituting a genus.
Origin of monotype
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Other definitions for Monotype (2 of 2)
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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How to use monotype in a sentence
You go back to the monotype room and get a bunch of slugs and leads and saw them up to fill the cases.
Nine Men in Time | Noel Miller LoomisIt will be seen, therefore, that the casting portion of the monotype machine is actually automatic.
The Building of a Book | VariousNow, the genus Zea is not only a monotype, but stands almost alone in its family.
Origin of Cultivated Plants | Alphonse De CandolleTwo distinctive styles of these machines are now extensively used—the Linotype and the monotype.
Type | A. A. StewartThe reason why the machine is called a monotype is that the letters are made one at a time, and monos is the Greek word for one.
Makers of Many Things | Eva March Tappan
British Dictionary definitions for monotype (1 of 2)
/ (ˈmɒnəˌtaɪp) /
a single print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture has been painted
biology a monotypic genus or species
British Dictionary definitions for Monotype (2 of 2)
/ (ˈmɒnəˌtaɪp) /
trademark any of various typesetting systems, esp originally one in which each character was cast individually from hot metal
type produced by such a system
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