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linotype |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Linotype \Lin"o*type\, n. [See {Line}; {Type}.] (Print.) a A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic. b The slug produced by the machine, or matter composed in such lines. -- {Lin"o*typ`ist}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: linotype n : a keyboard-operated typesetting machine that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal
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