monotype

[ mon-uh-tahyp ]

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.

  1. Biology. the only type of its group, as a single species constituting a genus.

Origin of monotype

1
First recorded in 1880–85; mono- + -type

Words Nearby monotype

Other definitions for Monotype (2 of 2)

Monotype
[ mon-uh-tahyp ]

Printing, Trademark.
  1. 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 Loomis
  • It will be seen, therefore, that the casting portion of the monotype machine is actually automatic.

  • Now, the genus Zea is not only a monotype, but stands almost alone in its family.

    Origin of Cultivated Plants | Alphonse De Candolle
  • Two distinctive styles of these machines are now extensively used—the Linotype and the monotype.

    Type | A. A. Stewart
  • The 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)

monotype

/ (ˈmɒnəˌtaɪp) /


noun
  1. a single print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture has been painted

  2. biology a monotypic genus or species

British Dictionary definitions for Monotype (2 of 2)

Monotype

/ (ˈmɒnəˌtaɪp) /


noun
  1. trademark any of various typesetting systems, esp originally one in which each character was cast individually from hot metal

  2. type produced by such a system

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