perfect binding
noun
a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
perfect-bound
-
a word derived from
perfect binding.
Example Sentences
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Soon, ad revenue allowed it to morph from a broadsheet into a perfect-bound magazine.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
Meanwhile, Krein dropped his pseudonym, too, and began putting together the first issue of American Affairs, an old-fashioned, small-format, perfect-bound journal of politics that aims to rethink policy for the age of Trump, and beyond.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2017
The assistant director seems resigned to an impasse and pulls a thick perfect-bound stack of paper from a drawer and begins to read.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Brewster Kahle's Internet Bookmobile can convert a digital book into a four-color, full-bleed, perfect-bound, laminated-cover, printed-spine paper book in ten minutes, for about a dollar.
From Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books by Cory Doctorow
