Definitions for Monotype

Monotype mon·o·type

Spelling: [mon-uh-tahyp]
IPA: /ˈmɒn əˌtaɪp/

Monotype is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in Monotype (emnoopty).

Definitions for Monotype

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.

Origin of Monotype

First recorded in 1880-85; mono- + -type

Examples for Monotype

"This is a monotype," said Mr. Buckingham Smith, picking up a dusty print off the window-sill.

What are the essential differences between a monotype and a Linotype?

Sometimes these words are mere aggregations like automobile, monotype, sidewalk, policeman and the like.

It is called the monotype because it casts and sets up the type piece by piece.

The monotype, like the Linotype, aims at speed in composition, but in its mechanism it differs essentially from the linotype.

Secondly, the monotype casts type, not in blocks or a whole line, but in separate letters.

It will be seen, therefore, that the casting portion of the monotype machine is actually automatic.

Another firm employs a man to attend to every three monotype machines used, for the purpose of keeping things going.

The linotype and monotype machines, uncanny in their operations, have also come into common practice.

These machines are called respectively the Linotype and monotype.

Word Value for Monotype
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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