linotype
Origin of linotype
1Other words from linotype
- lin·o·typ·er, lin·o·typ·ist, noun
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Other definitions for Linotype (2 of 2)
a brand of typesetting machine that casts solid lines of type from brass dies, or matrices, selected automatically by actuating a keyboard.
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How to use linotype in a sentence
Ottmar Mergenthaler worked twenty years on the development of his linotype machine, and ten years thereafter in perfecting it.
How to Succeed as an Inventor | Goodwin B. SmithThe Mergenthaler linotype Company has paid out twenty millions of dollars in dividends in fourteen years.
How to Succeed as an Inventor | Goodwin B. SmithAdopting the policy that only journeymen printers must operate the linotype machines, the union was able to meet the situation.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig PerlmanFor Sam had installed a linotype, and Wilbur Cowan had patiently mastered its distracting intricacies.
The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon WilsonThe linotype, pronounced by London Engineering "the most wonderful machine of the century," was not the product of a day.
The Building of a Book | Various
British Dictionary definitions for Linotype
/ (ˈlaɪnəʊˌtaɪp) /
trademark a typesetting machine, operated by a keyboard, that casts an entire line on one solid slug of metal
type produced by such a machine
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