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linotype
1[ lahy-nuh-tahyp ]
Linotype
2[ lahy-nuh-tahyp ]
- a brand of typesetting machine that casts solid lines of type from brass dies, or matrices, selected automatically by actuating a keyboard.
Linotype
/ ˈlaɪnəʊˌtaɪp /
noun
- 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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- lino·typer lino·typist noun
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Example Sentences
Ottmar Mergenthaler worked twenty years on the development of his linotype machine, and ten years thereafter in perfecting it.
The Mergenthaler Linotype Company has paid out twenty millions of dollars in dividends in fourteen years.
Adopting the policy that only journeymen printers must operate the linotype machines, the union was able to meet the situation.
For Sam had installed a linotype, and Wilbur Cowan had patiently mastered its distracting intricacies.
The Linotype, pronounced by London Engineering "the most wonderful machine of the century," was not the product of a day.
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