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• monotype
  monotype

  noun

  the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
• Monotype
  Monotype

  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.

monotype

¹ American  

[mon-uh-tahyp] / ˈmɒn əˌtaɪp /

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. Biology. the only type of its group, as a single species constituting a genus.

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Monotype ² American  

[mon-uh-tahyp] / ˈmɒn əˌtaɪp /

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.

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Monotype ¹ British  

/ ˈmɒnəˌtaɪp /

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

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monotype ² British  

/ ˈmɒnəˌtaɪp /

noun

1. a single print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture has been painted

2. biology a monotypic genus or species

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Etymology

Origin of monotype

First recorded in 1880–85; mono- + -type

Example Sentences

In her 2000 monotype and intaglio print “Got Milk!,”

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2021

Commercial air travel as we know it is too entrenched and settling down ever deeper into a sheer monotype: twin-engine airliners, small-to-medium size, geared to worldwide productivity.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2019

“From the Heart,” a monotype of a ruddy-colored, long-haired female figure charging across a void, is downright exuberant.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2017

Matisse’s small monotype portraits from World War I stand out as “carved” with a few clean, deft needle-fine lines.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2010

For example, — suppose the keys of the monotype machine, piano or typewriter were not located permanently in the same relative position.

From The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste by Gilbreth, Lillian Moller