[mon-uh-tahyp] 
| 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-uh-tahyp] | 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.
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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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