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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

Zhou had recently returned home to Shanghai from M.I.T., where a chance encounter with an American Monotype machine had spurred him to create a Chinese version.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2022

Monotype, an American firm founded in 1887, is the industry’s biggest.

From Economist • Jun. 26, 2014

By the late 1980s the personal computer had begun to loosen the hold that big European font houses such as Linotype and Monotype had on the market.

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 8, 2014

The Linotype and the Monotype dispensed with that bottleneck.

From Scientific American • Oct. 21, 2013

So when the Monotype casterman set a job in Caslon that should have been set in Century, I turned him over to Dr. Hudson.

From Nine Men in Time by Loomis, Noel Miller