movable type

nounPrinting.

type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal.

Origin of movable type

First recorded in 1760–70

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One was the invention of movable type, and the other that of pointing the wood screw.
Invention | Bradley A. Fiske
Objection may be made to this statement, and the declaration urged that movable type were used in China before the Christian era.
Invention | Bradley A. Fiske
Almost coeval with the advent of these intellects was the invention of printing with movable type.
International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I | Various
movable type was invented, and "civilization was thrust into the brain of Europe on the point of a Moorish lance."
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) | Robert G. Ingersoll
It is printed with a sort of movable type, and each character is a pictograph or hieroglyph.
Archology and the Bible | George A. Barton

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