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English
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Etymology
[edit]From mono- + type or mono- + -type. The printing technique is so called because it allows only one impression to be taken.
Noun
[edit]monotype (countable and uncountable, plural monotypes)
- (art, printing) A print made by creating the design using oil paint or printer's ink on metal or glass, then transferring the image directly to paper.[1]
- (art, printing, uncountable) The technique of making such prints.
- (biology) A monotypic taxon.
- A keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters.
- (sailing) A sailboat designed to be crewed or raced by a single person.
- (computing theory) In the Hindley–Milner type system, a single specific data type.
- Coordinate term: polytype
Translations
[edit]a print of some design created on metal or glass
a technique of making a monotype
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a sailboat for a single person
Verb
[edit]monotype (third-person singular simple present monotypes, present participle monotyping, simple past and past participle monotyped)
- (transitive) To produce a monotype of.
- to monotype an engraving
References
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]monotype m (plural monotypes)
- monotype (not machine)
Noun
[edit]monotype f (plural monotypes)
- monotype (machine)
Further reading
[edit]- “monotype”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English monotype.
Noun
[edit]monotype f (invariable)
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