Monotype (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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. the only type of its group, as a single species constituting a genus.
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.
noun
  1. a single print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture has been painted
  2. a monotypic genus or species
noun
  1. 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
Monotype (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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