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mon⋅o⋅type

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

Origin:
1880–85; mono- + -type

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.
mon·o·type   (mŏn'ə-tīp')   
n.  
  1. Biology The sole member of its group, such as a single species that constitutes a genus.
  2. A unique print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked surface.
mon'o·typ'ic (-tĭp'ĭk) adj.
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.

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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