movable type

noun

, Printing.

type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal.

First recorded in 1760–70

One was the invention of movable type, and the other that of pointing the wood screw.

Objection may be made to this statement, and the declaration urged that movable type were used in China before the Christian era.

Almost coeval with the advent of these intellects was the invention of printing with movable type.

Movable type was invented, and "civilization was thrust into the brain of Europe on the point of a Moorish lance."

It is printed with a sort of movable type, and each character is a pictograph or hieroglyph.

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